I think we're fascinated by gangsters and that whole lifestyle and crossing the line. We get sort of stuck in our normal lives, if you will, and you want to be bigger than life and I think people somehow live through these sorts of characters.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch.

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

It could be that it's not that different. Circumstances, no matter what the color is, could be similar.

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."