When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life .

You totally need to watch the news.""Can't.""Why?""It's too depressing.""Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.

I hate to read books but a friend said he read the dictionary and that the Zebra did it.

Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.

The more knowledge, the more responsibility. The more love, the more ability.

If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

What love lays bare in me is energy.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.