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.

You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

a lack of communication is preferable to a profusion of miscommunications.

No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.

I have a special place in my heart for working moms - it's a constant pull on your heartstrings.

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

You look at people like Gena Rowlands, but she had [John] Cassavetes to write these amazing roles for her.