I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.

In acting class, you talked always about keeping it real and don't act... connect with the people and connect with the partner that you're acting with. The same is also true in politics.

In fact, not only do I support eliminating soft money, but I support full public financing for campaigns.

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - Understand Me. I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

Dream big, dare greatly and shine brightly.

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.