All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.