I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't mean that your families are going to fall in love with each other.

I'm flattered that women think that I'm sexy.

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, "This can't be my life..."

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.

I've been very blessed to work in some films that I'm very proud of.

The expression of your heart is beating beneath your fears

When in doubt, take more time.

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.

State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.

What an astonishing thing a book is.

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

Literature is achieved anxiety.

Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.