I like playing characters that, you know, a couple could go see the movie and one person could love him and one person could hate him.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

The earth is but one country and Mankind its citizens.

He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

I cannot take your sense of humor--and, with it, you've nothing to fear from me.

I'm always nervous. If I wasn't nervous, it would be weird. I get the same feeling at all the big races. It's part of the routine, and I accept it. It means I'm there and I'm ready.

I add a smile to everything I wear and that has worked great for me.

The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.