I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession….

You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also and you're this also and you may hide ….

Nothing misleads people like the truth..

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out..

You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you….

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive art….

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things..

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes..

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?.

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right..

I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little ….

That's what's great about Howard Zinn. Here's a guy who says, "Look, democracy doesn't come from above - it comes from below." The only way change wi….

Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that a….

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor..

Rebellion, just to be clear, can mean holding onto some of your own integrity, of not playing into the idea of sensationalism. We all have our moment….

In fact, I am so happy to be turning 40 and finally having a reason to take responsibility for my own behavior. It's also worked for me in terms of m….

I know that, for me, working with people like Robert Rodriguez and Ridley Scott and the Coen brothers and Oliver Stone and Gus Van Sant was so much e….

I read "Milk" and immediately I was very emotional after reading it and then I saw the documentary - the one that Rob Epstein did - and I said that's….

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness..

You have no idea, especially in green screen, what movie you're doing. You really don't. And then, you see the movie and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'….

My craziest on-set story comes from during the Goonies, when I came up to Spielberg and said that I wanted to climb the walls of the tunnels and that….