I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

I love great animation.

It's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

My whole mantra is, "Go big or go home." I don't want to just play a guy who dresses up. I want to play the person who threw down.

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to reject help that requires a more difficult path.

We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus.

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.

The demographics are changing - and so what? Citizenship is a question of certain agreed-upon values and that is that. Do we believe that? I think at heart we do.

It’s certainly true that it’s easier to be patient about change when you’re not personally suffering...

Get the kids to understand that they shouldn't worry about who makes the shot, only whether or not the shot is made

Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.