For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.

Discovering life in oneself is to become what you have the potential to become

A community best serves itself when it truly serves the awakening of the unique story trying to come to life through each person born.

A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.

Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.

Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.

Skating is what got me into punk rock.

My dad is a loving person. He would never disown me. At some point we will be together again. I love my father, and he loves me.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

I've always believed that a beautiful shoe is useless unless it feels as wonderful as it looks.