I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

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.

Mindfulness develops the ability to be a real friend to ourselves.

When you go through a bad relationship and finally dust yourself off, there's a vulnerability that goes along with that.

The sun came out the next day, which it had no right to do.

You are too blessed to ever dare to settle for an empty life.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

I shall drink no #‎ wine before it's time! OK, it's time.

I have discovered an astonishing truth. God is attracted to weaknesses.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

Money talks, bullshit walks.