You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

We want to make people feel something after they buy that ticket.

You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.

If you dissect my career as an actor, and you can pull out more than enough of those type of movies, from The Hurt Locker and The Town and so on and so forth, and that's kind of where our wheelhouse is. We love it.

I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.

My philosophy on what makeup is...it's very different from what a woman's is. Makeup came from a very psychological place - of the peacock.