I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I generally play strong people and scary people.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

A gentleman is not a pot.

A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Usually all my tattoos came at good times. A tattoo is something permanent when you've made a self-discovery, or something you've come to a conclusion about.

If something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don't put it in the facts section.

Think of every audition as a chance to perform and you will have fun doing it.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.

We need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.

The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one's devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.