I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.

[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I guess it's semi-autobiographical.

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can't believe I did that, it's like another person. It's the thought of it, it's just appalling to me.

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.