Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

Most of your problems exist because your heart is hard and you are being arrogant.

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

The way that I approach music has a bit of a sense of humor to it. Something slightly different that people can still relate to.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.

Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.