Regrets are stupid; they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

When you improvise on the spot, people are very reluctant to have soft moments or quiet moments or sad moments because they're trying to fill up the spaces. So they always go towards, "How come you're late?! You're supposed to have my shirt ready! You call this a dry cleaner?!" That's what happens. That's why improvising on the spot gets very dicey.

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.

Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.