I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

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.

The ordinary are here to fit into the world

Nobody expects you to understand the mind of God or know why he would love us in the midst of our weaknesss and sin.

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

If a dragon has already transferred their consciousness to their heart of hearts, then they will die a true death.

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.

If it's obvious, it's obviously wrong.

I was excited about getting my first tattoo, but I was only twelve, so I had to hide it from my mother.

Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.