I think what’s important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.
You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.
If you can’t help people, then what is the point of being successful?
It’s just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage.
The ideal life is you don’t sell a single magazine, nobody’s interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom.
My wife is my soul mate. I can’t imagine being without her.
History is change happening one person at a time.
If you’re just an actor you’re reactive. You’re saying, “Well, I hope Hollywood gives me a role, or gives me a chance at a role,” whereas if you can generate your own content, then you can go where you want to go.
Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.
The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies – and having been the writer, I can say from experience – the writer is lower down on the food chain.
I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just – then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact.