Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.

Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.

It was fun shooting with Josh [Holloway], not just how great he is, but just how handsome he is.

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.

Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.

Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

Time is an encoded pattern of fabric woven with information & energy.

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.

Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.

God, Bones, you must have argued yourself blue in the face.

Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

All the women in my family were superb cooks.

I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists

What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?