I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

I'm a whore. If they have a check and camera and a script and stuff for me to say, I am mostly there, unless I just can't take it.

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

If it wasn't for the devil, we wouldn't be here, would we?

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves.

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.

I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends.

I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.

You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, 'This is a high-top day' or 'This is a bob day,' but when I get my clothes on that's when I see.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

My first British film was Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend It Like Beckham,' which was a huge international success.

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project.

What most surprises me about Brazil is the extent of the difficulties that we create for ourselves. We create a lot of legislation to control the Brazilian state itself, that this ends up meaning that things don't go with the speed any head of government would like.

What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.

Real estate stocks have had a good run, but once interest rates start to rise, the present value of developers' future earnings will start decrease. Shipping lines are in for a tough time.

The Great Depression in the United States far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system is a testament to how much harm can be done by mistakes on the part of a few men when they wield vast power over the monetary system of the country.

I always say now that Im in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

If you are anxious about death then you dont have a sense of the oneness of thingsyou feel that after death you will be no more.

Melancholy is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.