I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

Acting is happy agony.

I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

To see a man’s true colors, tell him you’re saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman’s true colors, tell her you’re poor.

God is always present. The question is, how present are we?

Without new ideas success can become stale

Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

Failure is but the longer road to triumph.

The Coca-Cola Mean Joe Greene ad is one of the most famous commercials of all time, so I was blown away when they asked me to be in this new spot.