“I like to be with someone who has character and style and someone who is very understanding.”

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.

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

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.

Thirty is a very good age for an actor: you can play both young and old men.

We need racial justice to achieve climate justice.

Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity.

Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.

My dad’s probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that’s not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.

I try to choose characters that don’t remind the audience of my previous roles. I make a conscious effort for that.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.

You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.