If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.

I love watching people listen. And on film often some of the best moments if you think about favorite moments on film, often the person isn't even talking.

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.

Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrative, that's tricky.

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.

it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

A smile is what makes a face beautiful.

[I]n America, wrongs can be righted, warriors can wear skirts and blouses, and the bravest heartsmay beat in girlsonly five feet tall.

Accept yourself, seek the divinity within you.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.

We have all this digital equipment, and sometimes this analog stuff comes back and people say "Oh my god!" It makes a different sounding music.

I don't care if people think I'm a junkie or a loser.

Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.