Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!

The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would be defeating the purpose I believe so I try to keep a little bit of diversity.

We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.

No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.

Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it's not carbon. That is ridiculous. It's an empty jar.