I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

Approach everything with a careful tongue. - Elder God from The Thousand Years War

Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.

Friends always ask me what the best Indian restaurant in L.A. is. I'm like, 'I don't know, dude. I have an app on my iPhone for that.'

Potatoes have such a high GI rating; it's almost the same as eating table sugar.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

That which does not kill you isn't finished.

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.

I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.