Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.
I always had an affinity for lizards. I’ve always felt somewhat close to them. They’re reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times.
I’m attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I’m interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I’m interested in the things people try to hide.
You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don’t know how to feel good about the work you’re doing or the life you’re leading.
Somehow you’ve been voted something for a magazine, and it’s a complete mystery to me. I mean, I wake up and I have to look at that head when I brush my teeth every morning. And it’s weird and it’s unpleasant at times.
I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.
I guess I’m attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
After having been confined to a television series – and it’s a luxury job – where you can’t play anything but one particular character for nine months out of the year, it will make you insane. It didn’t affect me. I got out quick enough.
There come a time, when good man must wear mask.
There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.
People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn’t have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?
When kids hit one year old, it’s like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.
I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would – a many-syllabled word.
Whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like-you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid.
I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.
Anything I’ve done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,’ I beg you to slap me.
For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.
Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.