The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me.

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

I never pursued a career relentlessly.

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.

Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern day Western.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right in the country.

Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

I regard the 'Descendants' as a melodrama, and all scenes have been the trappings to increase the element of romance, I thought. In that sense, I am very satisfied and have great respect for the decisions of the writers.

Michael and Alex, I love you. And we're going to have the biggest celebration when you get home.

Its human nature to want to be with other people.

I think it makes a difference when the actors are enjoying it more than anything because we have a real blast on 'Torchwood.'

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

Always my collections are made of different influences.

The more merciful acts thou dost, the more mercy thou wilt receive.

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

I have never voted for a tax increase.

If you lost it, it's because you're meant to find something better. Trust, let go, and make room for what's coming.

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'

When I'm home, I cook and try to eat really clean. I try to eat vegetables at every meal. I stay away from pasta and bread and have brown rice and potatoes instead.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

I love helping the kids.

The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.

Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.