At 21, you can live life with reckless abandon, as reckless as your abandon is. Then, at 30, there's something there are the supposed to be's. You're like, "I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm supposed to be doing that." You start measuring your life by what you think you're supposed to be doing. Having recently turned 40, it's like, "What the hell?! Why am I worried about what I'm supposed to be doing? What do I want to do?" You become fine with wherever the road takes you.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

To be silent is to be passive.

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.

As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script.