The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

I really believe that you never stop learning.

I'm not a proponent of people watching a movie, and then going out and doing something bad. People have been doing bad things, well before movies.

I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current.

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.

A mission without action is equally ineffective and futile as action without mission. Use the “power of precision, ” and remember language shapes thought and thought shapes action.

When you open to the world, the world opens to you.

Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them.

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

I think the word 'pregnant' is funny.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.