The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life .

To take dominion over the earth is to follow the command of God

A dreamer must be discovered working or working on it or it is reduced to a wish.

Back, back, back, back. Gone.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.

I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see.