As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I generally play strong people and scary people.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world.

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

Being out of the mainstream is entirely consistent with the way Donald Trump is approaching his presidency.

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.