Acting is always a challenge.

Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.

People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.

I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.

I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.

Living a lie is painful, and doesn’t do anyone any good. I had to be true to myself, because, either way, God would know if I was lying.

The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.

Using tax payers' money to provide liquidity to Wall Street so that the country wouldn't head into a depression was the right decision, in my judgment.

The sun will shine in my back door one day.

Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

We're in a situation now where fewer and fewer small films get made. People want these big giant tentpole sort of things, and I don't know, it's getting harder and harder to make a small movie.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.