That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.

It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.

You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes dare it again and it will succumb.

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

All my good friends are actors, really. It's different when you have a family, but they're still the people I meet most often. My best friend is Ian Hart, but then I've known him since I was five.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire.

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.

I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop writing about writing, and actually write.

Now we have Republicans - to one degree or another - working as hard as the Democrats are to defeat Donald Trump.

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.