It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

If you get too heavy with the nods and winks, people get a sense that they're excluded from something. If they're in screenings and everyone's laughing, and they don't know what the hell it's about, somehow you feel excluded from the party, or like you're not in the inner circle. As a performer, that's the worst thing you can do to an audience. It's fun, but you have to be very careful with it.

I think one of the things I always loved about the comics was this idea that this character, when he goes berserk, that white, blind rage makes him incredibly powerful, but it's also a great flaw. It's almost like he loses consciousness of what he's doing. During that he can do great damage.

If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'