I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

I like Math because there's only one right answer.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

Hollywood is full of guys who say one thing, and then do another.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

I've always been looking ahead, which is a good thing, but getting married slows you down and kids slow you down, a little bit. You look ahead, but you've gotta learn to enjoy what you have.

As an actor, it's exhausting being someone else. It's not physically demanding, but it's mentally demanding, if you do the job the way you should.

Give a reason for your existence and make a life out of it.

Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.

Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the highest apes.

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.

I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.

I once heard a woman laugh at that most tragic moment in all drama, the off-stage shot in "The Wild Duck," and I afterward had her killed, so there will be no more of that out of her.

Life is in the here and now. Either we meet it, we live it-or we miss it.