If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.

I met [Shatner] on the set of Star Trek V, and he was horrible to me. He was cruel, and dismissive, and treated me the way I understand he treats pretty much everyone who tells him how much they loved him as Captain Kirk.

I'm going to go talk to some people to see if you could be in the movie because you should be in the movie.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.

Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area.