I learned a lot about acting from the people I worked with.

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.

Storytelling is the important thing.

I've never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don't understand women, I'm off that kick.

I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.

I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker.

I'm just an actor. Just a stupid actor.

I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a stupid actor.

You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another. I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster.

I think television is always changing. It's always shifting.

The official bio is the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your entire life.

When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.

Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of replay in that sandbox sounds like fun to me.

Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.

Artists are kids. I feel like I'm six years old.

By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?