Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

It’s easy to fall in love online with someone you’d slide away from on a bus stop bench. A little too damn easy.

The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

Valhalla on the right. Paradise regained on the left. Stuck between a Godiva truffle and a chocolate eclair. Between a rock and a very hard place. Two very hard places from the looks of it.

I didn't need more fame or money. I needed more heart.

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.