There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity

What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you find the life and then you add the words.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful

Without Scientology, I would be in an alley somewhere looking for dope.