I remember at the premiere of my second movie I started crying. I thought, I'm so bad that I either have to stop this and do something else or learn what I'm doing.

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

Nothing was ever where Cole wanted it to be.

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.

We don't avoid the word... just the action.

Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.

you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect)

At first I thought he was walking a dog. Then I realized it was his date.

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.