You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

As an actor, you hope to obtain this mind meld and sometimes I feel like I'm chasing a horse holding on to its tail and getting dragged, and other times I feel much more velcroed into the saddle. And I'm not the knower of which is better or best as a process, it's just as random as the weather in terms of what my subjective experience is.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.