I manage to hide in my movies.

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'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

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.

We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.

Idleness is the holiday of fools.

Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

Lie down on the floor and keep calm.

I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs of his neighbor.