You KNOW what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An IMPORTANT Lesson, Inviting NEEDED GROWTH.'

Rock is about FINDING who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very WELL at all. You can just BARELY get by and you can be in a rock band.

I'm finding, as I GET older, that I'm not MUCH of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real LIFE - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my DESIRE for it in STORIES (especially my own).

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor PEOPLE are hugely INTERESTED in finding out an AWFUL LOT about.

There are souls in this WORLD which have the GIFT of finding joy EVERYWHERE and of leaving it BEHIND them when they go.

One of the most challenging aspects of WRITING a MEMOIR is finding your own VOICE, and you should be very careful about being influenced by SOMEONE else's voice.

If you talk to geneticists they are CONSTANTLY finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the ENVIRONMENT. Genes ALONE do not determine an exact PATH in your life.

I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her WAY. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just FINDING any way that I could to be involved in any kind of PRODUCTION.

I do KNOW where I'm GOING and it's just a MATTER of finding the LANGUAGE to get there.

The secret of a happy MARRIAGE is FINDING the right PERSON. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the TIME.

Finding that BALANCE between WORK and family is the hardest THING I've ever done - by FAR.

I'm finding a lot of actors my AGE now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or BROUGHT up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of KINDS of backgrounds.

We must REJECT the EASY impulses of bitterness and rancor and EMBRACE the difficult WORK, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.

I ALWAYS LOVED the CREATIVE process, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Finding Neverland' to 'Basquiat'; whether it's serious, or it's comedic, whether it's the 'inside LOOK' at that, it seems to be a theme of what I do.