On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people..

You have to live a life to become a writer..

From an acting point of view you need to look at what you're bringing in..

The music industry is so fickle, there's so many politics. I think a lot of people don't pay attention to the credits or the artistry no more. I thin….

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourse….

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me..

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating….

Stop thinking schoolishly. Stop acting teacherishly. Stop talking about learning as though it's separate from life..

Being fly is something that I consider myself. I would love to be at some point..

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling..

I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in….

No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong..

A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you..

I mean, stand up you're by yourself and it's live and when you're acting, unless you're doing a monologue, you're interacting with somebody else. Eve….

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was alway….

My acting range is incredibly limited and narrow, but I'm a good heavy. I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. "Can you be a cop?" Sure. ….

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your wo….

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself..

Death hastens those who hasten death..

I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because a….

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions..