I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to.

I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.

You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.

I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.

For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

Even if the role is very far away from me, to try and make it as nakedly me as possible is an intriguing notion.

It usually takes about two and a half weeks after you're done filming where you kind of return to yourself again.

I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

Respond to your inner instincts with enthusiasm.

For to-day I take or give

Ye have not because ye ask not.

I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.

I went to the actual SVU precinct... and got a really good sense of what it was like.

No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.

Where you are now is not where you will always be. There are brighter days up ahead.

I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.