I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

I always kept myself fairly fit.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

When I'm in Italy on a Friday night, my first supper there is a big bowl of fresh pasta and a glass of local wine, sitting outside. There's nothing better.

We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.

I don't think I've shied away from anybody. I'm not scared. I respect hitters, but I'm not afraid.

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift - a striking shift - from production to financialization.

Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.