I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year..

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movi….

I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and p….

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot..

The first perk of theatre is the girls..

Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no ….

I've had a lazy career, sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much….

The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them. I think (Alan Sh….

I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligat….

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe..

Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into ….

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's….

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common,….

I look for things that are very different from my life, and that are curious and idiosyncratic to me. And then, I like to find if I'm able, just a li….

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is….

People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked….

For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I w….

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important t….

If I don't need the money, I don't work..

The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lin….

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but….