[ Woody Allen] persona in the films are so iconic; it's like on par with Groucho Marx or something like that.

I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those kinds of directors and getting to tell those stories is what I want to do.

Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.

The last three movies I've done, I played a cowboy, then I played a soldier, and now I play Han Solo. So the little kid in me is having a real joyride.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

You get bummed out, and then you go, "Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself." That kind of helps.

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.

So many times you can't get a foot in the door unless you're already in the room.

The idea of it [Star Wars] is really exciting, but the most fun part is the actual job you get to do: the character that you get to play, the people that you work with, the day-to-day experience.

Tomorrow will meet those who do not prepare for it as a surprise...when talking with my son, 18th April, 2016

Unhappiness comes when we feel helpless. Hope comes the minute we decide we are not.

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that?

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

Why is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back? Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

The nature of faith is that it must be tried.