I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times.

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

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

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.

That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

Especially from the legal end of things, the easiest thing for a big corporation or lawyer to say is no.

Meditation is the most effective form of relaxation. It not only relaxes the body and mind but also feeds them with vital energy, peace and happiness.

That whole 99% thing, they are all in the 1% of the world. Every one of them pays a cellphone bill that is the yearly income for a family in much of the rest of the world.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.