One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can. The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.

I like to box. It's a great release.

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.

I like to argue with the radio.

Employees get things done. Partners get things done done. But owners get things done done done.

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

You don't know what you've got until it's gone.

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'

Don't judge your taco by its price.

Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic action of ritual, but in the concrete theater of society at large.

I want to score more goals; the main ambition is goals.

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

My obsession is TV and movies, so I order an obscene amount of DVDs. And I have an obsession with handbags. So once a year, I treat myself to a luxury handbag.

The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left.

I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.