I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.

Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

The way we do anything is the way we do everything.

It's important for me as an actor to be able to make a living.

The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

I don't drink water. Have you seen the way it rusts pipes?