I do know that people tend to do their best work when they're challenged and stimulated by their peers.

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

If something happens that causes you Pain, remind yourself that you can’t get the Rainbow without a little Rain.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

It's a long time between drinks.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

I belong to the petit bourgoiusie somehow, because of my parents.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor.

I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq.

He glosses over and doesn't even tell the truth....Here is a guy who is the ultimate flip-flopper running for president, and he's attacking me for not being principled? That doesn't wash.