I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Jon Lovitz. Jon, your act is like masturbation: you're the only one who enjoys it, and you should be arrested for doing it in public.

I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work.

I dont want to just be a broker all my life, I want to lead.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

The police are controlled by the whites, the media are controlled by the whites, the army's controlled by the whites, what hope is there for change? Administration changes from underneath.