When I was in high school, I read the whole thing about Don King and he had this quote that said, "Set yourself on fire and the world will pay to watch you burn." I thought that was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard and I wrote it on my wall.

Most of the time when you see a movie, the best character in the movie is not "the guy," it's the guy next to the guy.

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

You never see girls running after engineers.

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.