Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.

Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining.

Praying for the people that hurt you may not change them, but it will change you.

...for if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

Art is something that everyone should be able to have access to.

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.