If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.

I always want my options to be open.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

If you follow your heart, you will be happy.

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

Making a movie is casting a spell.

We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.

The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer