The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song

I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

I'm definitely someone that's private. I've never been interested in celebrity.

To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities.

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.

I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

I've written a lot of music, so to be able to put that together and play some shows around the country and elsewhere - that would really be a fun thing to do.

Better to say nothing at all, rather than something you'll regret.

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

Lord Help the Mister that comes between Me and My Sister.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys.

Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.