I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore.

Fame is a bitch, man.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.

America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.

At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled... until the next.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

Depression is not interesting to watch.

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.

How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!

I always knew I was going somewhere - going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there.

I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.

I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

I feel like I have to share whatever I can. You're culpable if you don't act.

I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.

I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives.

I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

I guess I just don't see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of 'our team's better than yours' - it's a high school idea. My kids don't see those dividing lines, and I don't want to either.

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.

I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.

I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

I just don't like the separatism that comes from religion, and, without fail, the need to put your beliefs on someone else. When you start telling someone else how to live, you should check yourself, man.

I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation.

I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.

I think someone's conversation, whether in e-mail or in person, should be private.

I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.