Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.

I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.

I'm definitely a lover, but I fight when I have to - for something or someone.

As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?

Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody's job and don't just settle.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.

Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.

Just us as people, we're different around different people and in different environments.

I think redemption is about righting a wrong, and in that pursuit it's about trying. You can stumble, you can make mistakes, but it's about trying to do the right thing.

As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

My job is to assist you in finding the answer that is right for you. Not the answer that would be right for me.

She took time to think on things

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

How lucious lies the pea within the pod.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.