You can only be stupid when you're young.

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

My eyebrows make a more profound impact on [other] people than they do on me... I just let 'em grow.

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.

If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

To stay on the map, you've got to keep showing up.

I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

All your thoughts, imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation are part of the mechanical process that can be understood, at the state of self-realization.

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further.

In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

Impossible just means they ain't thought of a name for it yet.

Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.

Just because you shot Jesse James, don't make you Jesse James.

It's never fun to do it by yourself. It's good to have other people that are on the same path as you. It's nice to have that in common and be able to converse with them. It's cool to share that.

I had no reason to get all goofy, just because the man was too good-looking for his own good.

The time has come to end social promotion in our schools.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.