I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

Being fired is something... You have to really want to be an actor after you go through something like that. Because the level of self-doubt and insecurity that creeps into your psyche is monumental.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.

Didacticism is the death of art.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

I dont want to tell my dreams, I want to show them!

Hang Irish harpers wherever found.

We've all been there, onstage. You say something you don't mean, you make fun of something on accident but... This wasn't that. This wasn't crowd work. This was a rehearsed set. This was pointed.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

Instead of seeking to pinpoint blame, seek to understand cause.

In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.