I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act..

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is goin….

My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you li….

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit..

You can find the richness in any moment, even the most seemingly bleak. To try to do a movie about that was a joyful experience. So actually, it was ….

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character..

If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar..

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous..

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act..

You have to let go of stuff when you act for a while. You stay too attached to things that have worked or haven't worked, it kind of makes it harder ….

Performing as a musician is a lot different than performing as an actor. As an actor, you can hide behind the character in the play, and there's a di….

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one..

When somebody on a professional scale says "you did it wrong," it has a pretty intense impact. If you don't have some kind of opposing force to say, ….

One of the great tools we use in acting is the idea of immediacy, that the audience gets to see you witness something apparently for the first time, ….

When you're in pajamas that are sagging in the ass because you've got a battery pack that's weighing them down, and covered in 2,000 LEDs, and your f….

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me w….

When you get many opportunities early on, and you have people who have been working for a while counting on you, you have to at least pretend that yo….

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily h….

Being fired is something... You have to really want to be an actor after you go through something like that. Because the level of self-doubt and inse….

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it..

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in..