It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life .

A Cosmic Ordering beginning makes a wealthy ending.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

The human animal needs something to aspire to, somewhere to go and something to do.

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper.

If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.