If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.

Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!

I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.

I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

Her music ran through him with electric energy, more joyous than anything he could remember and more painful than silver.

There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.

This is why we can't have nice things...

[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

Don't be afraid of mistakes - There are none.

I vote yes....for Prim.

All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.