You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

You win in life when you are able to convert all your disappearing time or the disappearing life into products.

There is always something good to love about your life. You just have to take some moments of your time to reflect on the brighter side of it.

Looking aroundthere is nothing but illusionEverything is drownedin the oceans of illusion

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.

I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.