People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

Any obsession is dangerous.

I think reincarnation is possible. Hopefully, we all get recycled.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

One thing I noticed after being down in Mississippi for the shoot was that words like "God" and "Jesus" are used all the time, but they're not specifically referring to Jesus. It's sort of this accepted phraseology for love, or spirituality, or whatever it is you personally believe in.

Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.