I'm trying to make myself sound better.

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

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.

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.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

Wonder feeds our best intelligence and is perhaps its source.

The less people know, the more they talk. The less people understand, the more they try to explain.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

We need to forgive - but mindfully. We need compassion that powered by wisdom. That's the way to address our bullies.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.