It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

If I ever figured out how to go back in time, I'd tell my nine-year-old self to run the other way when a gnome showed up in her room promising a life of magic and adventure.

Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur.

Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a labor-saving device.

If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

Our journey into consciousness of wealth begins with the realization that we have already arrived!

Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.