We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

I love watching people listen. And on film often some of the best moments if you think about favorite moments on film, often the person isn't even talking.

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.

Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrative, that's tricky.

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.

Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.

Courage is a requirement for facing your fears, doing things differently, and applying any new habits that align with and support your goals.

Sometimes you have to give something up to get something better.

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.

I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.

The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals.

Dad, would the love end just because a person dies?

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.