The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

I'm not blind to the fact that we have to do a better job with our relationships between the community and police.