It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.
It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.
With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.
I’m a pretty gentle person so I don’t really have much of a thing of being a badass.
Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.
I actually love Twitter, but I don't. . . I never know what to. . . I get a lot of my news from Twitter. But, I never. . . I sometimes just don't think. . . I think Twitter is full of a lot of talkers and not many listeners, so I'm happy to be one of the listeners.
I was that 'awkward-didn't-understand-his body-kind of-uncomfortable teen. '
You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.
My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.
The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.
Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90