It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I just love getting dirty.

My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom

Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.

To focus energy on the less important things in life, hinder creating a solution to solve those problems that are of the most importance.

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

I never spent much time with people my own age.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?

I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.