I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.

People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

For me, a breakup changed my entire life. I was a mess. I really got rocked, and I ended up turning it into a positive thing.

The most happy ought to wish for death.

I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

If they believe only what they can see, why do we have classrooms?