I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

Man, if I can get a burp out of that little thing I feel such a sense of accomplishment.

I got into [producing] to be part of stories that wouldn't necessarily be right for me as an actor.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting. I grew up believing in it, and it worked for me in whatever my little personal high school crisis was, but it didn't last for me.