With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture one moment at a time, for the first time.

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.

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

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.

You truly deserve to reside at the top because your mind is far greater than anything that the bottom has to offer.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

Don't rely on leaders to do things you're equipped to do yourself.

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.