There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet

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.

True Happiness doesn't come from Prosperity, Pleasure, and Power, but from PEACE.

Thank You is a great thing to share... If a situation brings Gratitude to mind, then a heart felt Thank You is a great way to express it.

Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.

Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.