It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.

I love life, and I embrace every minute of it.

You know, I am kind of a bi-polarish schitzerphrenic. I run the gamut of being incredibly shy and withdrawn to being a crazy-eccentric exhibitionist. And I have always been like that.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

Nothing on earth hurts my soul deeper than conditional love.

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

The first version of everything is janky.

Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in the library adds to one's wealth as a writer or artist.

Don't let a week go by without conferences with each player, you can't teach it all on the floor.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.