Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.

Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!

I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.

I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

END is not the END, in fact, E.N.D means Effort Never Dies.

Life is not a matter of dollars and cents, houses and lands, earning capacity and financial achievement. Greed must not be allowed to make man the slave of wealth.

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

You mean you don't want to come in and hold my hand while I piss?

Oh, how magical it will be to have winter come every year.

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.