To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.

I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.

A big part of me just lets everything go.

There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.

You don't take on anything unless there's fear.

There are so many things that go into casting that you just never know.

If you're afraid of something, you definitely have to try to tackle it.

Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free.

As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.

Never believe a friend who offered you his friendship just because he was getting bored.

Let your projects be independent organisms. They will develop their own beautiful architecture.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

When you have little girls bringing you your action figures for you to sign, it's like, 'Wow, things are happening, and dreams do come true.'

The United States has no credible evidence that Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria early last year before the U.S.-led war that drove Saddam Hussein from power.

When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears.

I hear from everybody, and they say Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense. Were not hired to fight.

We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.