I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers.

One can only learn by teaching.

The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.

Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport.

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.

The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.