I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.

I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

Solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.

It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary.

There are other things that contribute to health besides a balanced diet. There are fresh air and sunlight and lack of nervous tension.

It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.