I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.

I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money.

I'm not very good at taking compliments. It's better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose.

I want to be a good human being.

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence.

She had said that she preferred to be alone for so many years that it was now one of those things that equally well might or might not be true.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.

I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find offensive.

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.