For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

For love ... is the blood of life the power of reunion in the separated.

I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

Universal rushed us. We started shooting without a script that was totally completed.

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.

The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.