I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.

When I got the job, I was sure that I wasn't going to get the job because Tom Cruise almost got the job.

People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

There were so many great teachers that had so much to offer. The idea of being rigid, why would you do that? People have their things, but why be rigid with any education when you can take things from here and take things from there?

Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.