I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.

If you just set out to be liked you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and you would achieve nothing.

I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean, if things go well, my wife hasn't even been born yet.

NATO members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look.

It wasn’t me! Look at how little I am. I’m a little guy.

I've traveled all over the world, but I don't think there is any place better than Texas.

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.