I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

Figure out what you care about...and then care about it

God can bless you wherever you are.

I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.

Sometimes I think, I need to think before I speak. And then other times I think, I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever.

[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

I'm a big Germs fan; most people are.

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

What’s the point of playing if winning isn’t the goal?