People are doing sitcoms on stage rather than theater. You go to the theater, and it's as if you were watching a sitcom at 8:30 on Channel 4.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

I love great animation.

It's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

My whole mantra is, "Go big or go home." I don't want to just play a guy who dresses up. I want to play the person who threw down.

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

I don't believe in your version of love, I have my own

Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.

I can't sleep, I can't but when all else fails I just breath...

You are a sick, sick man, ” I told him.“Thank you, ” Ben replied, looking modest.

Why is it that you still beguile me –As wind, stone, bird – and all the likes? Why is that you smile on me – With sudden summer lightning strikes?

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.

I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.

You've got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There's no countervailing power.