I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

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.

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

Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

For a moment she just stared, wondering if there were another girl staying here, or if Sebastian had taken to cross-dressing.

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

Hasn't there always been a moon?" "Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky - it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue.

I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull.

From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.