That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.

A good oration is good and a good understanding is better, but a good action in the right direction that gets the best results is the best!

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.

Keep practicing. Never let someone tell you you're too small or too slow.

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

We'll build safe zones which is something that I think all of us want to see.

I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.