Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

It's generally more fun playing the villain

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

Alec's trying to get Magnus to take him seriously, but he's never told our parents about Magnus, or even that he likes, you know -" "Warlocks ?" Simon said.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit.

I was a sportsman for years. I've always had a physical background. I've always had an interest in boxing and fighting. To get physical in films is a dream. I love it.

No vocation on this side of heaven is as privileged or rewarding as Christian ministry

Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.

Light and dark are relative to one another like forward and backward steps.

O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.