I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

God will fulfil His promise. Wait patiently for God to act.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.