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

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.

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

The toxic residue of humanity - you have to guard yourself, guard that sensitivity even more heavily because otherwise you can pick up so many pollutants that you'll become more toxic.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.

My son graduated high school and went to Haiti to work for his dad's organization and then extended his stay. It's incredible what he's doing.

The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.

I like raconteurs; I like conversation. I liked the 'Tonight Show' when it was 90 minutes, I like when people aren't plugging things per se, and they're just in the moment being interesting.

I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia.

Higher taxes kill jobs. Regulations kill jobs.

'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.

Trust is like a vase. Once it is broken though you can fix it the vase will never be the same again.

I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information.

Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.

Oregonians expect the state to prioritize the health and well-being of them and their families.

Great buildings like great mountains are the work of centuries.

Risk management should be an enterprisewide exercise and engrained in the business culture of the organization.

In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.

If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.

I want to give my records all away before some fool plays disco at my funeral and then the record gets stuck and nobody can tell and the service goes on forever

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.