I've been a lucky boy.

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.

All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

I never quite toed the line.

I'm shocked at being recognized.

I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.

It's the challenge of trying to evoke any kind of sympathy for a role that ordinarily we would say, "Oh, this is a bad guy" and dismiss him.

I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality.

If we occupy our minds with self-loathing or negative thoughts, then maybe we don’t have enough to do.

Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don't know the difference.

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.

We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That's Weird.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

I always root for the bad guy and I don't think you have a great movie without a great villain.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.