I seem to play a lot of losers.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

If we who have the Holy Spirit living and working within us falter and fail, what hope is there for the rest of the world?

If the beloved is everywhere, the lover is a veil, but when living itself becomesthe Friend, lovers disappear.

A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.

I know and know of more than a few MTF's (male-to-female trannies) who've developed strange cancers. Myself, I've got a nice little case of Chronic Lymphocitic Leukemia (CLL).

A picture is a model of reality.

The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.

I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.

There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.