I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it.

I'm really not a fan of letting the audience live vicariously through stuff.

I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again.

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.

I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.

I don't know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.

I look upon 'A Little Bit of Luck' as a very bizarre, happy, surreal memory.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.

Who I am as a father is far more important to me than the public perception.

When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

I'm not sure if I can swagger anymore, but I can limp with the best of them.

If I was as tough as I'm made out to be in movies, I wouldn't have to worry.

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.

Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to.

I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand

To all the girls out there who think being funny is not sexy, you are wrong!

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.

I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

The last time I took drugs, I probably took more than anybody could survive.

It’s been a tsunami of media and I’ve been riding it on a mercury surfboard.

Steroids build your muscles, but they don't build your tendons or ligaments.

In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.

My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.

Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them.

I don't really believe in the paranormal; I'm a skeptic through and through.

It's an addictive thing. It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush.

I'm a guy who's all about peace, love, and happiness. I'm a bit of a hippie.

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

What's really fun as the villain is working to get the audience to hate you.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.

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