We all would like to think that we would never, in a million years, have a glass of wine and get behind the wheel of a car, but it could happen, and then you could run a red light.

I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.

I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.

There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.

Peter Dinklage doesn't care. He's so cool so you can laugh at it. Most actors, if you laugh they'd just have a nervous breakdown. But he's just, "Yeah, I know. I know."

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

Once you put a mask on, if you allow it to, it can really transform you, and that's what a costume does.

I like to wear beautiful clothes, but I don't have that many.

Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I’ve exhausted every possibility.

Sometimes pain and hurt are good things because it means you strived for something in your life.

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another.

I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.

What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain?

Creation is the highest form of Divinity, and your birthright. Truth is, you are creating all the time. The central question in your life is whether you are doing this consciously or unconsciously.

All Children are Artists

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.