I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Imagine Himalayas without glaciers. Imagine 3 nuclear powers without water.

I'm a very romantic and passionate guy.

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

The recovery of the Gulf Coast region will take years to complete.

A coward cannot have any prayer answered.

The computer is important, but not to mathematics.

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

It's tough to describe my dream girl

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.