My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

To me, character in a person is judged by the decisions that are made under pressure.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

They should probably have a James Brown aerobic tape. You would lose a lot of weight.

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

I love to do cardio. I like to run and sweat a lot, and I think that's quite helpful.

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

Part of North Jersey life is that everyone is obsessed with being tough all the time.

As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave.

No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.

I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that.

You see people waving. You dont see people having problems, with each other at least.

You say something bad about Newsies and you have an awful lot of people to answer to.

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.

Do not kick people when they are down because you will surely fall right beside them.

I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.

I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids' films.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

If you feel like you've got something to offer you should do it while the iron's hot.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.

I believe that things happen for a reason. I think there are no coincidences in life.

But for those people who might give up: Get real about what you want and go after it.

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities.

What's great about 'Skins' is that the characters are exactly like people around you.

I like three-dimensional characters - it's just more interesting when you get on set.

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

I went to the actual SVU precinct... and got a really good sense of what it was like.

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.

The greatest acting really is spoken without words, or at least I like to think that.

To have that opportunity to direct under my belt was fantastic, so I'm glad I did it.

I really don't have a problem with gay marriage... because I'm tolerant and rational.

If you wanna find out 101 things to do with plums, heh, read your in-flight magazine.

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

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