Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.

If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

There's this feeling, when you stop believing it's a show and you're there and this is happening.

For a relative newcomer, it's obviously a dream to work with such a talented actress as Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at 10, or something ridiculous like that. That's a dream.

After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.

I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're there to do a job, and that's your primary concern.

Until I did my work and I did my utmost best, I feel like I don't have a right to feel excited.

An actor's job is to do their job. It's great if it's successful and it's fantastic when it's a huge hit, but at the same time, you're there to do a job and make sure you do it well.

You should always view any job as just as nerve-wracking or just as exciting as any other.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings.

Marriage to a very rich woman posed problems.

Yes! The Tommo is back!

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.