The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.

Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it.

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.

Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.