[On his role in The Last Temptation of Christ]: "To this day, I can't believe I was so brazen to think I could pull off the Jesus role." "I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy, besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work." "Casting people feel that they have to get someone who looks a certain way, and I think that the jury is still out whether people find me attractive or not." "I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished." "Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin." "The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing." "I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump." "...it's very clear that a lot of people that have really strong instincts as actors are very often inarticulate...Sometimes, you know, classically, if someone's very intellectual, they aren't as connected to the doing of things. And the doing is really the key to finding the emotionality and the spirit of things." [on whether good actors help other actors]: "You're always looking for good people to work with, because you feed each other. That's all." [on why he became an actor]: "You know, it shifts. When it starts out in the beginning, I think it's purely a social thing. The thing you get reinforcement for, it's a way of acting out. It's a way of getting attention. It's a way of just fitting in socially. And then, as I get older, it transforms into something else."