“A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.”

I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.

I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.

I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.

It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.

I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…

I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.

I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.

“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

No one cuts away your dreams only you do.

I love too deep and show too little. Because of cuts so deep covered up by so little.

People’s expectations cut dreamer’s wings.

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.