You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.

I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

The idea of a regular-looking guy who is the lead of something - whether it's a movie or a show - is something that I really hope I can grow towards.

The hardest thing in the world to play is something close to myself.

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

Growing up is like that, I suppose. The strings fall away and you're left standing on your own.

What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible...

Edward, maybe you're seeking the wrong answer? You are asking the wrong question. It's not what you believe, but how you choose to believe. Everyone believes something. Even nothing is something.

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

I want to know about life! I want some real answers..." "Five." "Five?!" "I thought that was a pretty good answer!

No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.

Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.