I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

I can't act without music very well.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

Stay Alive in Your Own Life

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that bonds you as opposed to being Jewish from Poland, or Jewish from Hungary.

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

But on the other hand, I think as an actor, you tend to want to look at the darker parts of your psyche.

The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse