I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.

What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

I can't relate to 99% of humanity.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.

I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

Men expect too much, do too little.

In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.

I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

Because I believe that I know about that aspect of hip-hop better than any one else, I'm trying my best in order to be the most real I can in this situation.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

Doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's.” “Well you can't say fairer than that then