Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.
Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.
I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.
I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.
I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.
I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.
The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.
I don't necessarily look for what I respond to in a script. I look for things that scare me, and take that as an indication that I should probably do it. I don't want to be bored. I look for challenges. I look for a variety of different things because it's so easy to go the cliche route.
Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?