I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.

I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

I still don't look like what I think I look like.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.

I strictly want to beat every opponent I face, whether it's for a title or for a small show. The only thing for me is winning my fights and being the best athlete I can be.

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.

Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything

Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.

I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it's up to all of us to keep it together.

It is appalling that President Obama would cut off federal health care dollars to Florida in an effort to force our state further into Obamacare.

An awakened man who is driven by his heart and soul, can touch the heart of a woman he loves, without touching her

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase as pretty as an airport. Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort.

Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they're talking about.

Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the fact of not making a film to give your opinion but just as a piece of art, which to me means the Nouvelle Vague.

I can't say that I've fully achieved my dream yet. I'm just starting to evolve.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

I took a cabbie to taxi court once. Years ago, this guy didn't want to take me to Brooklyn. Just refused. I explained that I would absolutely take him to Taxi Court because, see, I'm an actor and have pretty much nothing but free time.

With families, no matter what kind you inherit, at some point you want to announce that you belong to it.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

Fidelity is seven tenths of business success.

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.