“I used to be a guy who was experiencing the Universe, but now I feel like the Universe experiencing a guy.”

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

The peace that we’re after lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire, faith leaps over it.

Originality is really important.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

I could live without my phone. And one thing I’d love to do is experience having the freedom that kids had back in the ’80s.