I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. The rumor was I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.

I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

There are a lot of good actresses out there.

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.

Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.

I'm a slow reader.

I'm just an actor.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

I love a well-plotted story. But I'm just not that kind of writer, and it's not necessarily by choice. When I manipulate plot, I feel I lose authenticity.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind.

Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.

I live my life based on two principles. One I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two I live today as if I am going to live forever.

Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.

A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

I promise to love you forever - every single day of forever.

I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

That's one of the problems with the Zeppelin stuff. It sounds ridiculous on MP3. You can't hear what's there properly.

For all the criticism of me, there's one thing you won't hear anybody say, and that's that I've pulled the wool over anyone's eyes.