I'm an average guy. I wasn't the dude who was gonna sit at the stage and dump all my paycheck into the girl.

I screen tested for Training Day many years ago, which was David Ayer's script with Antoine Fuqua directing.

If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.

If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.

I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not.

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures.

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

When you disrespect Australian law, they will tell your firmly. Declare everything when you enter Australia.

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

I think it's a mistake to say that to be a healthy, well-adjusted person you need a monogamous relationship.

The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

I spend most of my time at home dancing with my daughter to things like 'Frozen' and 'The Greatest Showman.'

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault- they watched the foot come towards their face.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they're like, 'Hey! All right, all right, all right!'

You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

To really understand what love is, you've kinda got to dig down deeper than just how you feel at the moment.

Getting into Heaven is not something you can earn or deserve. God makes that really clear in the scriptures.

I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

I have a voice. It's one of my gifts. I intend to use it on behalf of the children that UNICEF seeks to aid.

It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

Time seems to slow down after the winter holiday. New York loses all of its winter romance and is just cold.

Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century.

I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.

When I went to drama school, I thought that everybody would think I was only there because my dad was on TV.

Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.

You've got to be in the moment and respond to what you're feeling. I try to simplify it as much as possible.

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

Anything that I do is something that I'm passionate about and really believe in, no matter how it turns out.

I just try to do the best job that I can, as an actor. Hopefully, that carries through. That's all I can do.

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

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