You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.

Write more. That's the advice I would give myself.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

A dream comes from within you. It is what you were created to do, so it has always been there.

A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you.

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

I don't think there can be anyone on earth more happy than I am right now. Inside, I feel fulfilled.

I always wanted to be a leading man!

You believe God is not there, but He is, Hidden in the secret of the divine mystery

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.