Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.

It's hard to kill that father-son bond.

I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.

I used to eat a whole chicken every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It’s a mess.

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

They sat in silence on the windowsill, their hands locked across the distance between them.

No one has ever changed the outcomes of the future by constantly worrying about it. Therefore, your goal should be to always focus on the present and give it all that you have in you.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.

Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God. Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God. Beloved are Israel, for unto them was given the desirable Torah

States Rights died at Appomattox.

A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

I've never had an abortion. And I don't know if I would. But, it doesn't mean that I wouldn't fight to the death for women to make their own choices for their own human bodies.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.