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.

You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can paint in broad strokes, which happens a lot in action films, or you can get very detailed.

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Telling the right thing is not enough

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

Any person by nature has inherent capabilities. You have to trust your instincts and act with spontaneity.

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

Nirvana is right here, before our eyes.

The president-elect [Donald Trump] has a duty and obligation to abide by the law. And he's except from most all of these laws.

Every service problem is as an opportunity to show you care.

By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.