If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.

One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the work for you. I guess that's good. But at the same time with material that's not so good, you have to be more inventive, because no thought has been applied to it.

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.