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.

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

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

Do what you're doing while you're doing it.

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.

I'm really happy with where I am, the movies in my life. Not satisfied, necessarily. But I won't put it on somebody else, blame anybody else for my position in the business. It's the choices I have made.

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.