Everyone's really lazy in L.A.

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.

Just because the rose died on the vine, doesn't mean it lied to you when it was in bloom.

I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect.

I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don't go hungry, you're a moocher?

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.

It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.