I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.
To my mind, talent doesn't really exist. Talent is like a card player's luck. It is motivation, ambition, and luck. It's just a drive to be the best. I think acting is a con game.
You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
I became a Christian man in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page, but it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can't identify unless you're really going through it. It's a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control.
I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.
I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.
Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.
I love doing stuff that I haven't done before. That's the goal: To keep reinventing myself.
I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.
I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos.
Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.
When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.
Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.
It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.
To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.
If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that's my goal. I know it's strange to think about, but that's the goal.
Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.
I have a hard time with free time.
All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.
I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
I think envy motivates a lot of people.
You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.
But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.
I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!
