I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.

I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

Making something is HardMaking something you don't even CARE ABOUT isEVEN HARDER .

By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.

I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.

Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

I'm just seeing as I grow older, and hopefully wiser, that a lot of things I see from a race perspective are class problems too, so I should be advocating for all.

Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.