I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.

You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Big things have small beginnings.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

I'm a huge Rachel Maddow fan. There's not a bigger Rachel Maddow fan. I'm a Maddowphile. I'm a definite Maddowphile.

I give people permission to be kids again.

I'll keep doing the right things and the results will come

I started my career in Dallas, yes. I was born and raised in Dallas. I started my career there when I was very young. My guitar was bigger than I was. That's how young I was.

The best project is one that asks a novel question.