Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.

I love watching people listen. And on film often some of the best moments if you think about favorite moments on film, often the person isn't even talking.

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.

Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrative, that's tricky.

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.

We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours.

It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.

Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

I'm completely unqualified for any job I've ever had.

We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other

Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.