I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I just love getting dirty.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

I said to the players before the start, 'Just go out and give it 100 per cent. I am not asking for any more than that'.

There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

I feel some responsibility to shine light on things that I love.

Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.

Without the right marketing metrics, you are shooting in the dark. The only way to know if things are working for you or not is those metrics.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.