I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

You need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

If the shoe fits, you must wear it.

I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

I have always been so interested in film as a medium.

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.

I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything.

And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.

And maybe the only reason we have to fall back down to grow again is the same cause for the sun to rise and sink: our stars need time to shine at night to heal, to heal.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.

Women never cease to impress and inspire me.

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

There is no one who can change My course or affect My conduct to the slightest extent. I am the Master over all.