For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.

I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.

Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.

As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you; youre just looking for work.