Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.

I dont play villainy. I wouldnt even know how to play it.

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.