Actor

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them.

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

The media's about to become a lot more effective.

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

A lot of people, most people who are working, they do it for money. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. It so happens that I made a lot of money already, so I don't have to worry that much about it. I wouldn't fault anybody for doing it for the money, but it doesn't interest me right now.

A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'

I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work, anyway - I always take that as a really good sign.

When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus.