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 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 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.

Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.

One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.

I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.

I wondered if kicking him in the head would make the whole explanation pop out of his mouth in one chunk.

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.

You brought me grenades. You are officially the best girlfriend ever.

I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.