I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those kinds of directors and getting to tell those stories is what I want to do.

I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.

The last three movies I've done, I played a cowboy, then I played a soldier, and now I play Han Solo. So the little kid in me is having a real joyride.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

You get bummed out, and then you go, "Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself." That kind of helps.

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.

So many times you can't get a foot in the door unless you're already in the room.

The idea of it [Star Wars] is really exciting, but the most fun part is the actual job you get to do: the character that you get to play, the people that you work with, the day-to-day experience.

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake.

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

A woman has no control over herself.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.