Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

Painting is very interesting.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.

You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.

Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

I eat apples whole, seeds and all... yes, like a horse.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.