I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

I still don't look like what I think I look like.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

Now I realize what I've known all along, that this ability, or this gift, rather, comes at a cost. It always has.

Romantic stuff is not something I really remember.

We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy.

For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

From an early age I was aware of what America meant, and how the Marines at Camp Pendleton were ready to defend us at a moment's notice. I also remember what fabulous bodies those troops had.

I'm an aggressive person.