I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

No dream is ever just a dream.

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Perception and reality are two different things.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings

Only those who dream with a sense of urgency get to wake up from their dreams.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.

I know I might rub people the wrong way sometimes, but I'm just a kid living my dream... I'm enjoying my life.

I try not to get too cute for cute's sake.

My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I'm a little bit obsessed.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

The effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows the answer.