As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

I like the Wu Tang Clan a lot.

I really like The Catcher in the Rye a lot.

I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.

But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

I hope that people like us next year like they liked us last year.

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

A secure individual... knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

Our lives show the accumulation of all of our varied wishes. Wanting something with all your heart will begin to slough away all of your untrue and idle wishes. Success comes from an undivided heart.

Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

Acting is about truths and the more truths you're able to tell and share with your audience the more connection there will be.

I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution.

Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.

When I'm all alone and I'm by myself, little Peter keeps me company.