I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does...

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to...

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out...

Who is the happiest man?

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something...

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often...

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very...

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

One should be ever willing to learn,Why?

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.