I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

I'm thrilled with my body of work.

I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.

I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.

I'm not a high-maintenance person.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word human.

Oil and water don't mix

Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the object of your attention blossoms and flourishes.

You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!

I wasn't necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don't think it's an accident that I ended up on 'Community.'

Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

I dont know if God exists but it would be better for His reputation if He didnt.

I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

Polls can change; people's opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up.

The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.