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.

There were a few things that went into it. When you're doing something you're trying to be your audience at the same time, so if somebody tells me that this is a movie about retired opera singers, you think 'maybe I'll wait for it to come to DVD'. You're not rushing off to see it.

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

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.

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

We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.

37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.