One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it.

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.

I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.

I have only been acting since I was about eighteen. I couldn't imagine doing anything else. I don't think there is anything else I could do.

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.

A bit of adviceGiven to a young Native AmericanAt the time of his initiation:As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump.It is not as wide as you think.

Everything you mean to me, I can't put into words, because when you're as perfect as you, no amount of words will do.

Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.

Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.

Of course love is a force in life. People will go on falling in love forever. And more important, sexual infatuation will enrapture everyone. Otherwise, no babies!

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.