I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

I'm not a quick study, so I'm always struggling for my words right up until.