Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.

Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.

This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

Our magazine covers frequently feature the immoral, the perverted, the psychologically sick. Sin is “in.” People don’t like to be told they are sinners.

One dangerous thing about comfort is this: it always comforts and it can really stop real purpose!

Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.

Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

There are no plans to do any more live stuff. I really feel like there's enough live shows out there.

The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me.