The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

Money isn’t everything.’‘The only people who say that are people who have enough money to pay the rent.

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

To be a fool at the right time is also an art.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

How old are you?” – Nick “That many zeros and you just get tired of counting.” – Caleb

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence.