A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

[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.

I like women who can cook. That's first. Love is very important, but you've got to have a friend first - you want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you're with is also your friend.

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.