That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

When I pass the bar, you'll be barred from bars but put behind them.

A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself.

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away

This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.

Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.

When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.