Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.

I never get to wear a suit in my life, much less a tuxedo. It's kind of really fun to get to dress up, because you take yourself a little more seriously if you dress nice in a starched shirt.

I’m a pretty gentle person so I don’t really have much of a thing of being a badass.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

I was that 'awkward-didn't-understand-his body-kind of-uncomfortable teen.'

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

I should probably never describe myself as adorable.

I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money.

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

Misery will never be your destiny. Your mind deserves joy in abundance, but it's your responsibility to constantly feed the right words and beliefs to it.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

I make funny shows and put a positive message out there, showing people who have body image issues that... you don't have to look a certain way.