When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Staying aloof from what's keeping you away from Him is not works.

If, one day, you find yourself involved in a dirty game, keep in mind that you end up screwed unless you screw your opponent over.

I want to be a good man, a good writer.""Be one or the other, Ernest, not both.

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

[Women] Inferior? Superior! I am sexist, of course.

Everyone wants to turn on their TV and have a break from their normal day.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

I love books about dysfunctional families.