Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

I don't analyze things like titles.

I don't direct movies for a living.

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.

I look upon pride as a sin.