I started coming to L.A. as often as I could, for three months on and three months off, because immigration kicks you out after 90 days.

A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.

I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.

My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.

I was a show-off as a kid and loved to dress up. I was constantly in costume, drawing mustaches on with eyeliner and letting my sister plait my hair and all that.

I went to the Avengers: Age of Ultron and I'm like, "These guys are Olympians now." There's no place for a Walter Matthau in a movie anymore.

I had this alter ego where I would go to the theater with mom. I wasn't embarrassed by it; it was separate for me.

I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?''It's like having an operation, ' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over.

I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.

You cannot write if you are not angry

People don't exist without the past, I know. But the past isn't alive. It's you who's alive.

There are angels in nature walking amongst the trees and whispering the secret language of sacred things.

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

Social media is a performance like any other form of entertainment, and acknowledging that is important.

Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

If you are physically ready to play, it's a matter of confidence. Your confidence goes down when you lose games, when shots are not going in.