"Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird."

"You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?"

"You can't just wear the food chain around your neck like a bauble or necklace. You're part of it and if you keep treating it with disdain, that chain will strangle you."

"Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth."

"Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them."

"I’ve never seen a wild almond or a soy galloping about in its natural habitat, but cow milk is the best."

"Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom."

"You think plants don’t have feelings? Maybe not the type of feelings you and I have, but they do have planty feelings, really slow feelings that unfold or blossom over years rather than seconds."

"It's hard to leave anywhere. Even if the place sucked. It's hard to leave anywhere at all."

"I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring."

"My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do."

"The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. —CHARLES DARWIN"

"Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed."

"It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?"

"I feel like I came to acting late in a way. I was about 26 or 27, and it was imperative that I make a living right away, and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film."

"Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not."

"'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good."

"I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything."

"I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook."

"I think Polanski's an amazing director."

"I'd love to direct more."

"You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view."

"In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role."

"I wouldn't succeed at musical theater."

"I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor."

"I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing."

"It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say."

"Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it."

"I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had."

"I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well."

"I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels."

"I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it."

"It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115."

"I don't like watching people work if they're making art."

"I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore."

"I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie."

"I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski "resorts "in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me."

"I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious."

"Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice."

"I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life."

"I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see."

"I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it."

"I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there."

"In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive."

"I'm turning into a stricter dad."

"I don't make decisions based on money."

"I'm very proud of my Scottish blood."

"When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world."

"Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will."

"I drive an electric car."