Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places.

I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys.

And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty

I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

Set your affection to infinity and your hate to zero!

With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying to write a novel in French - you know, "this novel is to be written in American."

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.