My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are than what is actually happening in front of them with the artist.

Activists must be admired for the sacrifices they are willing to make for those things they hold dear. I would say those kinds of ways of looking at life enrich the value of life, and that is a good thing.

It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.

Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk.