My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

The great thing about Google is that you type in neuro-surgery and somehow you end up with Peter Sellers or watching Frank Sinatra. Google is a great resource.

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.