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

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.

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

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.

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.

Being different is not being odd

Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.

You have to go through good times and bad times to get where you're trying to go.

I wanted to do a collection where the narrator is constant throughout, so that there's a little unity.

The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.

And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.