I've never played a master thief. And I think I am one.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.

My thoughts amuse me.

From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

Hold on tight, Sam." He puts me in a choke hold. "Ahhh," I gasp. "Not that tight.

Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken.