We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

Stars don't want to have flaws. Stars like to be likable.

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

There is no best anything in art. Phillip [Hoffman] isn't better than Heath [Ledger]; Joaquin [Phoenix] isn't better than David [Strathairn] or Terence [Howard]. They aren't better than me. We all do different things. It's more of a celebration of a lot of great work than to give the gold to somebody. The underappreciated factor certainly has gone away.