When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film, than feeling like you've achieved that.

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

Never think that one voice is too small to be heard.

I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

I don't like hobbies. I read and travel and see my friends before they disown me.

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.

Satan knows your name but he calls you by your sin.

I am a vegan out of my love and respect for animals, as well as respect for myself.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

I'm always preparing for a regular life.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

I will advocate for Kentucky's interests.