"I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad."

"I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That's what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place."

"I'm straight. I. Love. Men. I love men."

"I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do."

"The laws of physics are the ultimate algorithm."

"Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself."

"A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant."

"The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."