If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.

When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.