“I mean, I’ve been stupid in the past, and I’ve learned from that.”

I’d sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.

I’d wear clogs, short pants and ladies’ bracelets. I created this aura for myself.

Some actors actually think about what they’re going to talk about during the interview–they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It’s very smart, but it’s so planned. I never think to do that.

The family is where most of our joy comes from.

Money is just something to be circulated.

There will come a day when the phone doesn’t ring as much as it used to.

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

Just because you’re from the minimalist school, it doesn’t mean you can’t go big.

I think there’s a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands – which is where my family is from – in Ireland.

Make them laugh, and then make them listen.

There’s certainly more work for me in TV these days.

I get to do interesting roles and make a living.

You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I’m not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.

I don’t. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.

My thing about looking good is that it should be the character.

If I’m playing a character who’s concerned about his body – an athlete, say – I’ll get in shape. If I’m playing a character who doesn’t or wouldn’t,

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I’m still learning how to see them.

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.

he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.