You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.

You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.

It's always funny to me how your movie becomes no longer yours and people interpret it how they want and react how they want to react to it, and it's fun to kind of watch that happen.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.

We're both [with Mark Wahlberg] capable of being sarcastic, vicious, violent lunatics, but we hold each other in check, appeal to the best aspects of each other.

Every movie has its own unique series of challenges.

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.

I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable.

If you don't have the gift of a loving supportive family, be that gift for someone else. It doesn't have to be a relative, just someone you know who is alone or hurting over the holiday.

Why should I just limit myself to the Urdu language? Why not sing in different languages?

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

The idea that people are incapable of making up their own minds about people is something that Obama and his party live with every day.

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.