One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.

Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.

I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Blame is the creed of the disempowered.

Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it . . . Why is it so easy to accept manmade miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?

That which you manifest is before you

Being able to draw Batman was 100% of my decision to sign with DC.

No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.

There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.