I think of myself as an actor.

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.

Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.