Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.

Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.

The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

But I loved making Eat Pray Love, and I loved working with Julia Roberts.

The end comes, no matter what. The only thing that matters is, how do you want to go out, on your feet or on your knees?

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Some people that don't see it as palatable, they shouldn't watch boxing.

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'

If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think.

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.