Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do, don't give up.

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

I know something great will come around the corner, and that's what I'll be doing next.

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.

All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then Who is the Potter pray and who the Pot?

I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.

I don't actually like dates. I get awkward as I never know what to do.

May we give as the Savior gave. To give of oneself is a holy gift. We give as a remembrance of all the Savior has given.