I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.

I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

The idea of a regular-looking guy who is the lead of something - whether it's a movie or a show - is something that I really hope I can grow towards.

The hardest thing in the world to play is something close to myself.

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

Develop habits of self-love that allow you to feel happy and cared for. You deserve happiness and your actions every day should be giving you that. Make time for yourself to enjoy life.

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.

Selfless, generous, compassionate living is unassailable.

the 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies and laying bare the truth.

Just making sure that they both felt equally loved is what was tough about the twins.

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

I've never met anyone who's left a comment on anything. It's just demons who live in basements.

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.