My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.

The biggest lesson I learned in my career was to ask other people what they make because the men usually make more than you do. And it's good to know. You're not allowed to ask...but it's good to ask.

The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?

I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.