My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

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

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.

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

I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus

We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.