I want nothing to do with privilege.

I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

I love hearing people laugh.

You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?

I like idiotic comedies.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: ... Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.

I was born to be your rival, ' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.

The only way to avoid making mistakes is not to do anything. And that will be the ultimate mistake.

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

Life is not confined to a four inch screen.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.