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I actually read somewhere that they measured how many calories you burn from watching movies, and horror movies are way, way up the list.
I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.
Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.
I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'
Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.
When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'
I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities.
The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.
I hate that we're always called "the all-female Ghostbusters," because you wouldn't refer to the original as "the all-male Ghostbusters."
I think there's something kind of good about growing up in a place you know is not the cool place to be. I think it's good for your head.
My parents didn't take me to the theatre to see Chekhov when I was growing up - we went to see 'Francie and Josie' once every five years.
You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.
Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
When I go see a basketball game, I'm always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi.
Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.
I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.
I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.
I think I'm probably a monster-of-the-week guy, and that comes back down to my old favorite show, which as a kid was always 'Scooby-Doo.'
I didn't grow up with any brothers, but I have my cousins, and I had my good friends, so I know what it is to have that bro relationship.
In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.
You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.
I haven't worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That's a particularly deadly attitude to have when you're working on a film.
I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.
Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.
Tofu is the root of all evil, and there's only one thing that can change a man's mind, and that's a modified Uzi with an extra-long clip.
You gotta be careful with message movies. People say "What do you want people to take away from it?" I always say its totally individual.
Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift.
We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
Women have so many levels. There's the physical level, which is a lot of fun. There's this emotional level, which is extremely mercurial.
In life, usually, even if you live in a big city, you can count on your fingers on one hand how many real friends you have; that's human.
The Bond situations to me are so ridiculous, so outrageous. I mean, this man is supposed to be a spy, and yet everybody knows he's a spy.
I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.
The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.
I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over.
I just sort of feel like John Hughes movies are perfect, but they're missing violence. If they just had some violence, they'd be perfect.
Shah Rukh is not my girlfriend that I should remember him. When I don't remember my past girlfriends, what will I remember Shah Rukh for?
I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.
A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.
I'm just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies.
I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.
I don't want a girl who's high-maintenance and wants to go shopping... I like a girl who doesn't wear make-up and is naturally beautiful.
I never really think things are over. I'm still hoping I'll get a call from 'Supernatural' or 'Vampire Diaries' or 'Fringe' to come back.
On 'Southland,' when a helicopter joins our scene, we don't skip a beat. The actors talk louder because that's what cops do in real life.
Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day.
I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.
When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.