“Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.”

I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Or people say, ‘Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.’ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‘Sexiest Man Alive,’ I’m honestly going, ‘Thank you. Right on.’ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‘Does this make me less talented of an actor?’

There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‘Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.’ I don’t want to be part of that.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

There aren’t many things that are universally cool, and it’s cool not to litter. I’d never do it.

Vrtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

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

You hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.

You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.

Don’t tell him ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ or they won’t even let you in the hotel.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.

How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.