It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

Wait. You think I'm going to die? That's why you slept with me?

I want to be like a Supernova

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

A mouse in the paws is worth two in the pantry.

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.