Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.

The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle.

The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.

Was I sticking around because I really wanted to be with Austin, or because I was afraid no one else would want to be with me?

Stupid, fragile mortals.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

If you don't like the way you are headed, change direction. Go inside. Search your place of inner wisdom. See what this calls on you to do. Then do it.