One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.

I think my ultimate directorial style is 'play.' In reference to theater, it's called a play - I believe in that noun, and the verb that goes with it.

A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself.

If everyone thinks you're bizarre and creepy, then you play bad guys. If everyone thinks you're beautiful and wants to kiss you, then you play the lead role.

When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.

I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.

When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.

I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

One does not change a feeling by focusing on that feelings. One changes a feeling by changing one's behaviors and or one's thoughts

I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

Passion is the engagement of our soul with something beyond us, something that helps us put up with or fight against insurmountable odds, even at high risks, because it is all worth it.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.

Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?