I see how people boss other actors around to try to get a scene favorable to them. I absolutely just never engage in doing that. If someone's going to do it to me, I just let them have it.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

Dear heart, love everyone and anyone. Please make me nonjudgmental.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.

Fail, fail again, fail better.

Ego is just a feeling of having a wall between you and others. There is no wall. You belong to me and I belong to you. You are accepted the way you are.