But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

Achievement and fearfulness can't stay together.

We don't experience our professional and personal lives as separate worlds

[I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a f***ing good-looking f*** you are.' And then I brighten up.

The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.