I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!

That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.

To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.

I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.

Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.