I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.