Going out there and promoting myself socially doesn't really intrigue me. I'd much rather have my work do it for me.

I like to have a hectic schedule.

I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

Don't feel like you're alone because you're not.

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

My life is very much consumed with work.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.

This, he knew, was courage, the truest, ultimate courage, because there was no one here to sympathize or praise him for it. What he felt was felt without the hope of commendation.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.

Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.

Never let a few people that don't get you, shape you, into their limited knowledge of what you can become.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.