In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

We have to not just open our eyes to what's going on in other places; we need to open our eyes to what's going on right in front of us.

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.

I stay true, because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character.

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

Children and cats are the best machines of fun!

Being determined delinquents, Peyton and I jumped the barricades and wandered around the dilapidated interior.

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

I'm a rock 'n' roll guy, really. I'm a big fan of Elvis. I got "Heartbreak Hotel" tattooed on my chest.

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

You get yourself prepared for a big game, you get yourself up for it. Then afterwards you don't sleep or eat properly.