It’s a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.

I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

I'll always be a foreigner.

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.

Karma: The delusion of the pretentious who think the Universe should act as their debt collector.

Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being.

Let nothing disturb thee Let nothing affright thee All things are passing God changeth never.

If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

Here's the major problem with going on strike for more money: You cannot get rich by demand!

Barrons’ lips twitched. I’d almost made him smile. Barrons smiles about as often as the sun comes out in Dublin, and it has the same effect on me; makes me feel warm and stupid.

They can be totally insane, but fans are our lifeblood.

Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley.

If I'm walking down the street and someone stops me and says, "Oh! A song that you wrote meant a lot to me, and I listened to it after I went to my sister's funeral," that's when it hits me.