I'm a better person when I'm preparing for a role, when I'm studying a role.

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it.

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.