I think envy motivates a lot of people.

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

There's a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there's a way to be on acid. What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that electric chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.