That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

Being fired is something... You have to really want to be an actor after you go through something like that. Because the level of self-doubt and insecurity that creeps into your psyche is monumental.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

What happens to you as an individual is you plus the world rather than you alone.

Go Big or Go Home

Giving your friends the evil eye, as you attempt to convince them that they took you away from your book, and it was awesome.

Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.

Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.