Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.

The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.

Faith doesn't have to be much. Not any bigger than a mustard seed... That small. Only that much faith you'll need in me, God says, because I am so big. I am the Great I Am. So have faith in me.

Freedom is the decision to live and die, doing what you love.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.

We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT.

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.