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"I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I never take into my own personal opinions or my own public image into account when I chose movie roles."
"Like everything, personal relationships and all that stuff is sort of put on ice while you go off to your location for five or six months. So, do I feel more settled in my life and in my work? Absolutely, yeah."
"I think it's a real danger, as an actor, when you try to make some statement through your career about what the business should be doing or ultimately what your image should be or how you want to be perceived. I look at every project that comes along and say, "Is this something I can sink my teeth into and can do a good job on?" That's really how I choose roles."
"When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss."
"I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count."
"The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult."
"There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind."
"I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life."
"At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man."
"We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility."
"I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count."
"The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do."
"Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying."
"Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery"
"That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her."
"Subconscious is motivated by emotion, right? Not reason."
"It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level."
"Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be... someone else."
"Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species."
"I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them."