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

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.

You have to let go of stuff when you act for a while. You stay too attached to things that have worked or haven't worked, it kind of makes it harder for you to move forward. So I try to concentrate on the experience that I have and then let the public expression of it be its own deal.

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.

When you get many opportunities early on, and you have people who have been working for a while counting on you, you have to at least pretend that you know what you're doing. So any actor that's pretending, you start to develop philosophies. Without years and years of experience, you kind of go with an attitude that you know what you're doing. And so I think right around that time, I was kind of at the peak of rigidly thinking that I knew how to work in film in a way that I wanted to. Cameron was extremely patient and generous with me.

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

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