You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
What other people think of me is none of my business.
Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven
Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.
How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.
Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
In the past, I’ve had my share of good reviews, but it’s always the crazy, scary, weirdo guy. I don’t even know how it happened. Look at me. I mean, when I’m naked, I look like a bald chicken. How did I get to be a scary bad guy?
It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.
I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
