I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.

I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.

The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.

I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

My stepfather was a producer. I'd always wanted to be in show business. And so when he came into my life and he told my brothers and myself, he said, look, if you want to be in this business, you're all going to have to start at the bottom.