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 ….

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….

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

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….

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, ….

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..

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs..

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous..

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….

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

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

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, ….

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..

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

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….

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

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