If everyone thinks you're bizarre and creepy, then you play bad guys. If everyone thinks you're beautiful and wants to kiss you, then you play the lead role.

I think my ultimate directorial style is 'play.' In reference to theater, it's called a play - I believe in that noun, and the verb that goes with it.

A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself.

When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.

I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.

When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.

One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.

My wife and I make the bed every morning, but it's a queen size bed today, as opposed to a rack, you know, a small single bed, which I had in basic SEAL training.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

I pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it's during a basketball game, because then I'll have, what, 10, 12 years to live?

I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.

Games are nature's most beautiful creation

Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.

If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.

The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others.

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.