Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also and you're this also and you may hide it in a certain way. That's what I love.

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

Comandante Fidel Castro is a gifted communicator. He is a brilliant, brilliant mind. But the thing that struck me most about him was he was not a "nationalist."

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?