I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.

The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

You're special, if you have some power in the world. People are looking at you and they think you're special.

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.

Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes an interesting story.

My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.

Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.

I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way.

I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic.

The Prayer that is answered is not of many words, but of Oneness.

Even if you forget that´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean

I am enduring temporary sufferings to fulfill my dearest dreams.

The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.

However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?

Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private

It is reasonable not to make any budget adjustments in the first quarter of 2015

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight