If you're afraid of something, you definitely have to try to tackle it.

We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.

A big part of me just lets everything go.

There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.

You don't take on anything unless there's fear.

There are so many things that go into casting that you just never know.

Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free.

As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.

...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.

Is there anything refreshing like renewed words of God?

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

The more specific you are, the more universal you are.

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

I'm fascinated by Bollywood.