When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

Words are tools of imagery in motion.

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I will become as craggy as them.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.

No place is a place until it has found its poet.

Meet every level of frustration with a greater level of character.