“Because the successful actors who’ve been in the game for a while want those roles.”

I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it’s pretty short-lived.

It’s great when people appreciate your work, but I don’t know how seriously to take it.

It’s interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense.

And the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world,

Something that I’ve always loved and appreciated is the chance to see something about someone’s character.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

Learned how to survive without anything.

It’s been very helpful for my career, but I’m trying to stay on the path I was on before.

My dad told me, ‘It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success’, and it took me seventeen and a half years.

So there’s more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.

The problem is when you become so well known that everyone is watching you and you don’t have an opportunity to observe.

Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues.

You meet a pretty girl, you’re different from when you meet a tough kid on the street.

We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn’t have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted.

So that isn’t the concern. You have to do what you can do, and share what you feel is appropriate to share in the moment.

I take a lot less for granted.

I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.

No man or woman is uniformly successful… we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can’t possibly claim that it was successful.

If you ask Americans whether they’ve been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they’ll tell you that it’s a very difficult proposition.

There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I’m the same guy I’ve always been.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.