I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It's made by God's hands.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

No one messes around with a nerds computer and escapes unscathed.

I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

I've always been opposed to slaughtering, eating, and wearing carcasses.

It's a lot easier to opine from the sidelines.

They say follow your heart, but if your heart is in a million pieces which piece do you follow?

Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.

People are friendlier in New York than London.

I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.

You can get elected to Congress without ever talking to black voters at all, and I think that's bad for the party.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.

I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.

These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause.

I love to work with artists that were able to find a brand new name and create something really exciting and fresh.