Anything that is absurd I see as a Coen brothers' influence! The Coen brothers are my favorite people period.

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

The obstacles are distractions. Focus on the ultimate goal.

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Many do not advance in Christian progress because they stick in penances and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.

What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in the temperate zones, in the most beautiful house.