You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

Try not to make a straight line crooked.

I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.

I'm not trying to put on airs for anybody. I'm only trying to impress myself by doing the best job I can do.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who's living them? You don't play characters that are celebrities - you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank's blocked.

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, 'Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?' You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.