My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

There are the obstacles of your position as an actor, not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity, because the successful actors who've been in the game for a while want those roles. So there's more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.

People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone