I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.

People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.

I don't like doing things that are too easy.

You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.

Let's start doing new and different things that enable us all to grow as a film culture and a community in total.

Bullying isn't about size, it's about intimidation.

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.

I have a disease? Bullshit. I cured it with my brain.

As a child I most closely identified with Charlie Browns teacher. Nobody listened.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

There is no fool to the old fool.

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.