The weird thing about acting is you're the most competent when you're at your best, but you have to be validated. It's a weird kind of vicious circle.

We're all sheep and lemmings to some degree.

As the son of a director, I really believe an actor's place is just to shut-up and do what you're told to some agree.

'Teen Spirit' is a celebration of the power that music can deliver to the cinematic experience.

When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do, " they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts.

Do others see something of Christ in your life? Do they see a “family resemblance” to Him by the way you live?

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.

The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.

The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.