If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.

People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.

I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.

I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

Whatever name civilizations give to the arrangement where a man lives with a woman, it is always better to call it a marriage.

I knew it was going to hurt. No one sends such a long text, using so many words just to say "I love you.

The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

As a Polynesian, our gods are tied to water, so this means something special.

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.