I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.

Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.

I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.

You shall love. Whether you like it or not.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

You don't need a man, you need a champion.

I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

Resentment is the little fire that can transform and destroy the world by becoming a wildfire.

In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.

Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.

If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did

I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.

One of the coolest things was that, in 2007, I got to go to Iraq with Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer, and Horatio Sanz. We went over there to do some comedy shows with the U.S.O.