It's always hard as an actor I think to be just on the set and have the kind of confidence to be like, 'Yeah, I did that. That went perfectly. That's great.' That's more confidence than I have.

Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.

You can't not love animals, I can't not. It doesn't matter what the animal is.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.

When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

The technical aspects of doing motion capture and actually, you know, capturing the motion, is very different. It's an interesting learning curve to be part of because you have so much gear on you.

Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.

Harden our hearts. To the innocents in the womb and we have hardened our hearts. To the need for compassion and mercy and. Fellow feeling. And charity. And decency in this world.

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement.

I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

You are also what you say to yourself all day long.

I certainly have the energy, and there's probably nobody that knows the Justice Department better than me.

We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.