I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.

Making a dream into reality begins with what you have, not with what you are waiting on.

Memories are like dreams. You remember how you got to the front of the classroom with no clothes on.

...I conducted a number of experiments to get in touch with my future self. Here are my favorite

Blossoming out through one's comfort zone should be well meaning so as to achieve newer levels of excellence

Too much TV hurts movies.

There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.

Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different.

Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.

... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.

Everybody who knows Formula 1 knows McLaren and knows that it is the greatest team in Formula 1.