"I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different."

"I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama there's no device, It's just about a human being."

"I'm Irish. I think about death all the time."

"There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad."

"On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away."

"You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil."

"Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking."

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."