In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.

I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

I invested all my money in debt.

I think I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film. I don't know why it should be humbling to see yourself on film.

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

Effective, true deep listening and honest dialogue is a gift a soul can choose to give. How easy or difficult that can be depends on the values you hold in your life.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

Once I find a bag that I love, I wear it always. I just don't change my bags. I literally find one and stay with it.

The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.

You're only as strong as your weakest member; you're only as positive as your most negative friend

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.

We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.