A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.
The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes, and for your failures. You can't go blaming others, or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.
Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.
Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.
I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.
I have a natural swagger.
I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.
Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.
I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.
I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.
There's something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same. But not when the nanny is around. But I will with my wife and kids.
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes.
You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family.
When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.
I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.
I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.
It's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill.
