My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.

My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.

In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.

I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.

A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.