Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

In order to reinvent yourself, you have to dig deep and look at yourself. I'd lost my way creatively, and I was humbled, and so I think I got really basic about wanting to depict people in the ways that I find them amazing and funny and emotional and that I can relate to and do from an instinctive, gut place. People trying to survive ... That's what all my movies are about.

Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.

Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you'd never, want to follow. "Don't cut your hair on a rainy Thursday because locusts will eat your farm" kind of thing.