Everyone’s entitled to express their political beliefs. I don’t presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

I’ve consciously taken on material that’s a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. ‘The Town,’ I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger...

You couldn’t breathe. The lights didn’t work and the radio transmitters would emit this incredibly high-pitched white noise.

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.

Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it’s all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you’re treated in a manner befitting someone who is...

I think it’s great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon. It’s representative of what I’ve seen people doing all over the Low Country around here.

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt — and fueled even more than Hollywood by money — if that’s possible.

A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue...

It’s wrong and disgusting to follow children around and take their picture and sell it for money.

On contract clauses: ‘There’s all this language where you can’t jump out of a plane or ride motorcycles. You have to go home and just sit there.

I just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.

I’m very insecure. I’m human, just like anybody else.

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of...

I think one of the dangers of great tragedies like this is, once they fall away from the 24-hour news cycle, there’s a tendency to think, `Well that’s dealt with,’

I’ve learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I’m going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.

You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

[Smith couldn’t resist elaborating:] It would be the most fictional role-playing ever. I’m no Affleck, which is bad in the bedroom, but good professionally. It’s good not to be Ben Affleck professionally, because then I...

I’m not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It’s not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain...

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you’re responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the...

The first day of ‘The Town’ was one of the most satisfying days of my career.

I dyed my hair for photo tests, … I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?

I’m always described as ‘cocksure’ or ‘with a swagger’, and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

My movies are unadorned, they’re not particularly fancy, I think they’re kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

To answer the question, though: I didn’t always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump...

Jackson said, laughing. ”You’re both up against a deadline.

One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn’t around the corner and that you do as much as you possibly...

In keeping with Miramax tradition, I was instructed to find the ‘hottest young stars around’ to cast in the movie. I got a list of two names: Michelle Monaghan and Casey Affleck. I was lucky...

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.

People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I’ve never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn’t me at all.

You get old, you slow down.

I’m not doing any press tonight.

Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That’s who I’m dating.

But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn’t know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing,...

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

On the day he had colonic irrigation: ‘I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.

My kids aren’t celebrities. They never made that bargain. We were offered a lot of money to sell pictures of our kids when they were born. You’ll notice there aren’t any. I make no judgment...

I didn’t do anything for two years but work on ‘Gone Baby Gone,’ and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it...

[Founded by vocalist Amy Lee and guitarist-songwriter Ben Moody in the late ’90s, the band has only gained momentum since its song] Bring Me To Life … Daredevil.

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.

Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

I feel horrified and sad and a great deal of empathy and lots of frustration.

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master’s there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn’t go to...

I started as a child, in this PBS series ‘Voyage of the Mimi,’ which led to driving down to New York for ‘Afterschool Special’ auditions, which led to moving to Los Angeles. I wanted to...

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist’s take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

The thing that kept bringing us back to Pete’s movie is that it was a story about real people. It (also) had a very specific locale; Chicago is to this movie what Boston was to...

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.