I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

Two such as you with such a master speedCannot be parted nor be swept awayFrom one another once you are agreedThat life is only life forevermoreTogether wing to wing and oar to oar

The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!

I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

We also mark what's ours. And as I'm not going to see you for twelve hours, I think I'll leave a little more all over you.

I'm kind of old-fashioned because I was born and live in the same house for six generations.

I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.