The idea of a regular-looking guy who is the lead of something - whether it's a movie or a show - is something that I really hope I can grow towards.

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.

I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

The hardest thing in the world to play is something close to myself.

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

Beauty exists, even in unlikely places. The key isn't to open your eyes but to open your heart.

They're all true. They all could have happened.

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.

Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.