I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.