I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

I can't relate to 99% of humanity.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.

I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

Every leadership role has a character driving force that will fulfill or decimate the ultimate purpose of the role.

France always has plenty men of talent but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

Every one that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth.

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.

I don't want to do just a liberal show.

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club.

Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.