I was always insecure about the way I looked.

I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

It's an odd world.

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying.

I will not subject my wife, family or friends to the sadistic vitriol of yellow journalism. I will not dignify such journalism with a reply or an answer. I never will.

I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.

They tell me I'm on 'Politically Incorrect' with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.

We're told all the time to give up everything for love. That's the Western notion of what love is - love conquers all, all you need is love. And there are so many different kinds of outside, conflicting pressures on women.

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

My mother made the best scrambled eggs, super-loose and soft.

It religious freedom is a fundamental right which shapes the way we interact socially and personally with our neighbors whose religious views differ from our own.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Imagine you're doing your thing, and somebody comes up to you and just kills your mojo. Just tell them, 'No flex zone!'

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

When I was really little, I wanted to be a wrestler so I could be like the girls I looked up to. My brother then told me that 'You don't want to be like your idols; you want to grow up and be better than them.' To this day, that's the best piece of advice I've ever gotten.

Don't get too set on becoming an actor at an early age. I think that's where some people get into trouble. Acting becomes their life. I don't want that.

New York is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.

I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person every person who is not clinically depressed!

I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something.

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.