The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.
If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
Great talent admits shortcomings.
Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.
I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.
There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.
To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.
You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.
I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.
I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.
Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.
I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can't always feel comfortable with when I'm living my own life, you know? Because it's make-believe.
One person's religion is another person's cult.
I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.
Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.
You have all the influence you choose to have.
There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?
Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing.
Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.
Creating something is all about problem-solving.
The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.
I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.
People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
I've been reading a bunch of stuff lately - like Joseph Campbell - that has made me realize that people in our cultural, especially in the liberal community, often go in search of a foe. It's like we always need a hill to climb up or something to push against, or we feel as if we're not working constructively in the world.
