I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

Work is my hobby, staying sober is my job.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.

I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.

My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

The extreme always seems to make an impression.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

You make me want things that I can't have.

Kindness is the best nourishment for humanity.

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.

Music can really affect the intensity of a workout. I love having it during cardio especially.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.