Being humble matters.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault - they watched the foot come towards their face.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.

I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me.

I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

L.A. kind of scares me.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

I don't have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor.

Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, 'See my movie,' and it can still tank. Followers don't always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it's because people are connecting to it - not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it.