As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through.

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

Everyone has their own approach to how they work.

Ewan McGregor and I had very similar first-time light sabre experiences. We both burned ourselves! These things are hot - they're full of batteries!

I don't see how you can give someone who lied to the extent that he did a second chance in the same line of work.

I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

I don't think things like trust should just be handed out. You have to earn that.

I've always been kind of a hermit.

I try to stay away from the L.A. scene as much as possible. I feel it helps me to better prepare for my roles if I am not too involved in that whole thing.

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

Leaders today should be more conductors than solo artists

The closest thing I have to a spiritual experience anymore is a Mocha Frappe from McDonald's.

If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.

Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.

I'm touched, Rixon. A bomb. How elaborate. Why didn't you keep things simple and just march inside my bedroom one night and put a bullet between my eyes?" Nora, Crescendo

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.

They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.

Prayer is - a means of uniting us unto Himself.