I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.

James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers.

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

As far as dieting and weight loss go, diet and exercise actually works. Lots of running and healthy eating.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.

Shooting in 3D hasn't really affected the way I work as an actor that much. Maybe that's not a good thing. Maybe I'm not being diligent enough.

Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.

The divine strength is greater than human strength.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.

I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.

I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform.

I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.

There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.

Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.