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If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1,

Liberty is a soul's right to breathe.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.

Our problem is civil obedience

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

All you need is twenty seconds of insane courage and I promise you something great will come of it.

If you work at something, you get better at it.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.

If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?

[Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to.

I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?

If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.

It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

Generally, the bigger the budget, the less interesting the characters become.

Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard.

History is change happening one person at a time.

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.

If Brad Pitt walked down the street, cars would crash into each other. I'm really lucky not to have to deal with that.

I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.'

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago ... because she's going to have the nuclear code.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.

I usually play characters that are a lot different than me. I mean, I'm never in a fight in a movie and if I'm in them, I'm usually losing.

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?

I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.

The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather you did this with us.

If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. Having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.

What is your greatest regret?
Not staying in better touch with people who truly mattered to me before they died unexpectedly.

As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value.

I think marrying somebody who's not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off.

He's famous for being obsessive about details.

As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.

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.

It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane.

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you've made.

I'll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.