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.

Sometimes it’s Britney Spears and sometimes it’s Carrie Fisher. I can’t tell if I’ve got a Lolita complex or an Oedipus complex.

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from...

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you’re trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

Lucky Numbers.

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don’t know what the trick is to maintaining it.

You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and...

It’s not something that can be ameliorated with the one telethon we did the month afterward. It’s a continuing process.

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I’ll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I’ll be able to give myself enough...

Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.

[A rep for the event said a reason was not given for the stars’ absence (but Garner is due in November) and added,] They’re very tight-lipped about their private lives. … next year there’ll be...

I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn’t even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if...

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

Well I’ve never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.

I was glad I did, except when I was wandering around in my real life with this big red Afro. I looked like Ronald McDonald.

I’m human, just like anybody else.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You’re embarrassed by your parents, and you’re trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

I’m not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I’ve been able to continue one with Gwyneth that’s really valuable.

I’m sure I can make a movie that doesn’t feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that’s my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the...

I like that best as I am so hairy

I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider – very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values...