I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.

I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

I want to make sure everything has my 100%.

When I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see the bad guy.

When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.

Obviously I was talking to my parents and my girlfriend all the time, but it's one thing to finally be in the same room and get to be with each other and just hang out.

I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired by Carlton Cuse and Randall Wallace.

I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.

You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can paint in broad strokes, which happens a lot in action films, or you can get very detailed.

God longs for men to be saved. God is at work to get men to stop their downward plunge in sin.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books.

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

If you have a weakness, everyone sees it all over the country and the other team is going to exploit it.

You are not your buttocks.

If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?

Never knew a man not to be improved by a dog.

When I say a vegan diet can be "the healthiest dietary option we can live by," I mean an informed vegan diet.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.