Chips on shoulder, all that, everybody plays the game for different reasons. You've got to prove yourself every time you go out there. That's the reality.

When someone deeply listens to you, your barefeet are on the earth, and a beloved land that seemed distant, is now at home within you.

It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.

There is no romance without finance.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

To be extraordinarily happy and to have no concern for money drives some people nuts.

Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul.

I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play.

The Super Bowl is like Christmas shopping at Macy's for bookies.

When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.