Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

I love great animation.

It's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

My whole mantra is, "Go big or go home." I don't want to just play a guy who dresses up. I want to play the person who threw down.

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.

My favourite city is Moscow, because of its history, which I find fascinating. As I learned to speak Russian, it made it even more interesting.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

I only dated one Asian girl, but she was very Asian. She was a panda.

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.