“I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.”

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been?

I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits.

What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.

Time is clay; make something.

Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.

Time is clay. Go make something.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.

For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.

For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all.