I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Big things have small beginnings.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends it’ll get you the right ones

I would've had an easier time if my emotions had all pulled me in the same direction, but it wasn't so simple. I'd been blown about like a scrap of paper in the wind.

You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose that sense of play, the work suffers.

That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.

I guess the best thing I do of all is ride. Horsemanship, I have a natural flair for it.