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.

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 enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

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.

Knowing me better than I think anyone shouldExcept, perhapsNo, probablyNo, definitelyDefinitely except you

The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creators.

Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?

And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?

Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.

You're intoxicated by my very presence.

I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.