Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.

I'm definitely a lover, but I fight when I have to - for something or someone.

As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?

Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody's job and don't just settle.

You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.

Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.

Just us as people, we're different around different people and in different environments.

I think redemption is about righting a wrong, and in that pursuit it's about trying. You can stumble, you can make mistakes, but it's about trying to do the right thing.

As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.

I've never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It's just not my thing.

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.'

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.

The U.S. is the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.