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.

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

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.

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.

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

Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain.