My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when "Wild Wild West" opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie - to open at $52 million - and to know the movie wasn't good.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

There ain't no problem that some other dude didn't have 1,000 years ago.

The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination.

Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.