Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Tinkering. I'd be a professional tinkerer. Tinkerbell. I think that's what they're called.

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

I don't want to go to the future. I'm scared of the future!

I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.

I have a couple of nice guitars that I use, but I don't have anything that I collect. I collect a lot of dust in my apartment, if that counts for anything.

I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

If you believe in your dream with all your heart, you can achieve it.

Go beyond the boundary of conformity to find the true joy of life.

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

I want to do rock operas.

Without humility you can't love. Love means looking beyond the self to the other.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

I remember when I first won the Academy Award, and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.