I love showing up and giving a performance without the benefit of a lot of rehearsal or dissection. It's fun to me to act on a kind of instinctual level and go straight for the performance.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

I love great animation.

It's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

My whole mantra is, "Go big or go home." I don't want to just play a guy who dresses up. I want to play the person who threw down.

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

Nothing is determined by fate. We create our own fate.

To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, "Oh, what's hot!" I don't need to.

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

Halloween without kids is tremendously bad.

Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.