“I don’t really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out.”

I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.

I don’t really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.

When you’re doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.

I didn’t have any pets growing up.

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

I swim a lot. I swim most days.

I’m not really an animal person.

I actually went to university.

I can’t run. I start getting twinges. If I were filmed running, it would be awful.

I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn’t lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

I’m probably a little too uninhibited.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.

I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.

You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year… unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.

The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that’s the point.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…

I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.