I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.

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 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.

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

The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame.

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

Those mad at me, writing emails angrily, Im not anti-America, America is anti-me.

You have the ability to choose what you want to experience.

Everybody's different and every person is different and every actor's different and everybody has different wants and needs, but I'm a kid who loved comic books my whole life.

I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.