There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.'

Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

That's the great secret of humans: we're all the same person. The best thing to do is just go for the hug.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

Be comfortable with being uncomfortable with negative habits.

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat.

One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.