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.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. But it's bullsh**t! Reflection is crucial.

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.