I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

I could get through this. I would be strong because I was so close to achieving my dream of having my kids together.

Possibility is what drives us.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

This nation is the hope of the Earth.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.