Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

I just love getting dirty.

My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit

it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

Mercy is not a proper Indian name."..........."Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not.