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.

I don't change. The things around me change.

It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.

The tradeoff between what you pay and what you receive may hardly make sound calculations in life situations), but survival has a cost.

Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom.

The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.

It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals.

The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.