I never applied to any acting schools. I don't know if that's just bad reporting, or - sometimes I just make stuff up.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

Well, it's embarrassing to be a star.

I don't like filmmakers to tell people how they should react to their movies. I absolutely have favorites, and I have others that I'm mortified by, but I keep that to myself. I think I've managed to find some very interesting things that I've been very satisfied with recently. I don't know if that's gonna keep going.

If I'm not working, I really have nothing to do with it - I'm not hanging out and mixing with film people. Not that I have anything against film people; they're some of the best people around and some of the worst people around, just like in any business... they just gesticulate a little bit more.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

It's very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American.