I love playing an alien.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

Handle your tools without mittens.

I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies - and dressed their fantasies.

The Life of Christ determines everything about us.

Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?

In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

If you *think* you think outside the box, you're trapped in one.

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

I love playing against Philip Rivers because he is so competitive, he is so fiery. You can just tell how he just gets his guys going.