I want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.

I always want my options to be open.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Come! our world is done:For all the witchery of the world is fled, And lost all wanton wisdom long since won.

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

False humility is better than no humility at all.

Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.

Throughout the day remind yourself that you are moving through eternity. Be focused. Be centered. Be in the now. Know what is going on in the world. Read a newspaper once in a while.

Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.