When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.

Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do.

I still drink a couple of Red Bulls every day.

I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

At a show, I'll look out from the stage and see a woman with a pearl necklace next to a guy in a Grateful Dead T-shirt next to a young kid with his mom. It's fun to see them all together.

There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.

I started off in drama, and there are so many women that I admire. Women in this industry are gladiators. Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Taraji Henson, Regina Hall, Regina King.

I actually like the sort of industrial, working-class woman like Rosie the Riveter, so I'm kind of like the sort of street style of the '50s.

Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

As scientific research demonstrates, llama wool's very coarseness and its range of fibers from fine to thick mean that it can be woven into clothing that's superior to down, fleece, sheep wool, and alpaca wool in criteria ranging from warmth to water resistance to usable life.

Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside.

Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once I'd read it, that it wasn't a seminal text. I think it deserves to be.

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

I know what it's like to feel snobby; I know what it's like to feel anxiety; I know what it's like to feel like busted because you're crazy.

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.