Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.

We actors are an especially superstitious lot.

I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.

I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all you have - happy memories.

Every time you walk lonely, you get a very special gift: The silence!

My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.

Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.

I always say I want to look haunted.

Rooney's good but not the best in Manchester.

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

Integrity, probity, ethics and transparency is needed but most important is the culture of discipline