I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

The secret is to just keep moving.

Difference is always the biggest challenge for humans. That's why we do enjoy reading or watching movies or watching TV. It's a personal challenge to get close to people that we never get close to.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.

As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected.

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.

Dream big and never give up on those dreams. Who knows where they'll take you?

I am the shadow of the flame.

There are subtle truths buried in every make-believe. You never know where you might find one.

To be a leader, be an example that others may follow.

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

Try again. Fall flat on your face, get up, try again. Fall on your face, get up, try again.

The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.