I don't ever feel like I've had a moment where I am like, "There it is; perfect and holy in all ways."

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.

If you are thinking today is nothing to do for me then there is some laziness in your mind and you don’t try to elaborate your thinking for future.

Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.

We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.

In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Seek His face and not His hand.

Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity but also our tradition.

Everything I loved became everything I've lost.