Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

You can't quell depression by making love. But we tried. But we tried, oh, we did.

I thought you had forgotten me.”“I have spent my life remembering you.

Respect isn't automatically earned. You have to first position yourself with a level of mannerism that's worth emulating, before others could see a strong reason to respect you.

My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.

I went to school on the Internet. I was not a cheerleader.

Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence.

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

Where's Marcus, Destroyer of Lives, going to meet us?