Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

It's not socially acceptable to be a complete and utter manipulative cow.

I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.

Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time.

'Dredd' was a weird, little, out-of-the-blue thing for me.

I enjoy what I do and it's a great way to live your life.

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.

Cersei in Game of Thrones is quite solid and stiff.

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.

As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

I do what I do; I cant control who thinks what.

I almost never get recognised in the street.

For me, horror movies are a real escape.

I have a playlist of farts on my phone.

I dont want to be owned by anyone.

That scene in 'The Purge' where my kids, Mary's kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly I have my methods as an actor, so I went to the place of 'If somebody came near my children, with bad intent?'

There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few on my back because my friend is an artist, and a few on my arms. Every time I pass a tattoo parlour, I think, 'Maybe just a tiny one.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

Getting the role in '300' saved me. I'd been out of work for 11 months after 'The Brothers Grimm.' Once the film came out and didn't do so well, the director Terry Gilliam blamed me for absolutely everything. It was pretty appalling, and I had started to wonder if I'd ever get another job again when I was asked to audition for '300.

I want to perform an unnatural act.

The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.

Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish.

I was a Jew talking about Goyim religion. If I had just stuck to Moses, everything would have been cool. But, copping to being part of the whole Christ murder conspiracy got everyone goose-stepping again.

You can't just run out and start the car until some cat invents a car.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

There's always a down side with any freedom. It's not just homosexual freedom, but any sexual freedom comes at a price, and that is usually art.

What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

I'm sure that half the buzz from smoking grass was the fact that it was so illegal.

I've talked to biblical cats, and Neanderthals who been here since day one. No one here has even seen the Big Boss. Ever.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Communism is just one big telephone company.

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.

I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair.

When you're eight years old, nothing is any of your business.