Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character..

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take t….

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art..

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear..

Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of….

All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It….

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all..

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt..

So, it's always different. Some stuff, you want to do because it's a part that you've never played. It's always for story. Sometimes there's a story ….

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these o….

So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket..

When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious ….

I've never tried to be something I'm not..

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101..

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only….

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake..

My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who c….

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water..

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in..

They [Marvel] don't tell you. You never know with them. They have their world, but they don't like to spoil anything, so nobody knows until it's set ….

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters..