Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.

I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.

If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else.

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.