There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

Like I tell our kids, 'Your Mom isn't always right and I'm not always right. But together, WE'RE ALWAYS right!

Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually!

Oh it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

It's impossible for me to hear the words quadruple murder suicide without thinking of my grandparents.

Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.

I just keep my horrible side well hidden.

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.

Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.