I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.
If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.
Work is my hobby, staying sober is my job.
It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?
I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.
As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.
The extreme always seems to make an impression.
I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do.
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.
My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.
I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.
Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.
I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.
I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.
Our love is God, let's go get a Slushie.
I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.
My mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level. They're humiliating, embarrassing. But if nothing bad happens to you, you'll just continue to act ridiculous.
I just killed my best friend... and my worst enemy. What's the difference?
Tony Scott was one of the best directors Ive ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death. He was a great guy with great energy. But this is a difficult business, and peoples lives are sometimes difficult.
I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.
That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the responsibility and the gift of what it is I get the opportunity to do.
I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.
