We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.

I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

It was the kind of storm that suggests the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that, that Americans were going to get a taste of Japanese action.

I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

They continue to criticize me for my outside shooting, but I continue to make outside shots.

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

What leader has no lessons to learn from his followers?