When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

I wait for good opportunities to come up to do stuff; I'm not seeking things. I'm quite busy in the meantime, but if the right thing came up, I would be happy to do it.