When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.

You can't not love animals, I can't not. It doesn't matter what the animal is.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

It's always hard as an actor I think to be just on the set and have the kind of confidence to be like, 'Yeah, I did that. That went perfectly. That's great.' That's more confidence than I have.

When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.

The technical aspects of doing motion capture and actually, you know, capturing the motion, is very different. It's an interesting learning curve to be part of because you have so much gear on you.

Revenge is often compared to full course dinner meal best served bitter cold, it is the weakest and poorest excuse for any man or woman to use to hurt another because of there own grief

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.

A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.

For 45 years I've worked without an audience.

If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.