I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit.

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact that it's constantly changing. You never know what class you belong to unless you're one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.