Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.

People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.

If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder.

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Success is a steadily progress.You can make steadily progress in all spheres of life.

Standing in the rain outside the door of Percy’s old house, we seemed bound together not by blood and not by love but by a sense that the world and its works were hostile.

I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute, & if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people.

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.