Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.

The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

The first perk of theatre is the girls.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

The Russians are a very sentimental people.

Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.

The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it's American as apple pie.