What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do, don't give up.

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

I know something great will come around the corner, and that's what I'll be doing next.

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.

It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

Art is as useful as bread.

I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.