I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel. There is a self and an other.

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

Good grief. You two look like Village of the Sofa Damned. (Cassandra)