You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.

I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.

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.