“School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn’t want to learn.”

I used to think, ‘How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?

I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.

If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn’t mean I’m gay.

Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other – they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% who never gave up.

There’s some of Romeo’s romance in me. I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.

For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can’t now.

Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.

I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go.

It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest.

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history – it is a moment for action.

Nature is vital to our future.

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it’s best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you’re doing.

You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.

Most of us aren’t that interested in getting rich- we just don’t want to get poor.

As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.

When you’re a working actor and you’re happy to be one, you can’t focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There’s that period in the late ’90s, the early 2000s, where I didn’t do a great deal.

I’m so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn’t choose to have children because I’m focused on my career. And I just don’t think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.