“Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.”

I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.

Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.

I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.

I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.

A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.

I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.

I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.

My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.

I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.

The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.

On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?

It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.

You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.

In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it’s the feel that matters.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

I’m staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.

If somebody knows me, they know for sure I’m from Poland because I’m playing for my country every tournament, every match.

I was like: “I’m actually doing this.” And now I feel more confident going into something.