All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

Being fired is something... You have to really want to be an actor after you go through something like that. Because the level of self-doubt and insecurity that creeps into your psyche is monumental.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.

To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.

Sedona is beautiful, but your soul is even more beautiful.

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

Travel is an emotional purchase

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

It's important to begin to even consider whether countries can become something that looks very different because people tend to take their countries for granted.

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.