You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I'm a f***ing actor! They hand me a script. I act. I'm here for entertainment, basically, when you whittle everything away. I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform.