I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.

But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to.

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.

I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.