"It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press."

"If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character."

"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."

"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."

"If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over."

"My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election."

"I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising."

"Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics."

"I manage to hide in my movies."

"You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job."

"Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused."

"You should never ask actors about politics."

"I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't."

"I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood."

"Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet."

"As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong."