I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

The idea of a regular-looking guy who is the lead of something - whether it's a movie or a show - is something that I really hope I can grow towards.

The hardest thing in the world to play is something close to myself.

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Knowledge and understanding are the true paths to power and unlimited wisdom.

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

Success doesn't stop when you get there

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.