If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant. When I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

I come from the philosophy of: "Whatever happens to me is the greatest thing that could happen, no matter what." Sometimes in the moment I have a regret, but then I have found myself every time down the line saying to myself: "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for that so called failure."

Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.

I don't know what happened to architecture [in Las-Vegas] I think they're getting us ready for space colonies or something, nobody puts a window in that you can crack.

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.