"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."
"As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong."
"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."
"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."
"If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character."
"It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press."
"I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood."
"Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused."
"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."
"If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over."
"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."
"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 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."
"Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out."
"You should never ask actors about politics."
"If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic."
"I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost."
"When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places."
"I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women."
"A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job."
"I'm not that interested in working with impervious people."
"I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing."
"Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first."
