I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him.

I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.

There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.