It's pretty tough on your loved ones to try to get back into a rhythm, especially when all you want to do is do nothing.

Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.

I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

I want to make sure everything has my 100%.

When I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see the bad guy.

When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.

Obviously I was talking to my parents and my girlfriend all the time, but it's one thing to finally be in the same room and get to be with each other and just hang out.

I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired by Carlton Cuse and Randall Wallace.

I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.

My kids give me the balance to live right.

The universe is holding congress with itself.

Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

I didn't love stickers and unicorns and stuff, but just if I were to ride on the back of a beast to work, I want it to be a frickin' unicorn.

People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way.

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.

Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.