I have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.

Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.

It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.

You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.

Just because the past didn't turn out like you wanted it to, doesn't mean the future can't be better than you ever imagined.

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.

The night I sailed for China, March 3, 1893, my life, on the human side, was broken, and it never was mended again. But He has been enough.

Before pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

The actual making of the records obviously have everything to do with each other, because I made them one day after the other, alternating doing it.

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

I guess some things never change.