In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.

I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

The idea of a regular-looking guy who is the lead of something - whether it's a movie or a show - is something that I really hope I can grow towards.

The hardest thing in the world to play is something close to myself.

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

If you were a real professional, you'd build a bridge and get over it.

Nolan was the only one who knew the real Lexi Shaw, and that was exactly how I intended to keep it.

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

A real feminist doesn't apologize for her beauty. You can be a sexy, beautiful woman and be the smartest person in the room.

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.