With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would be defeating the purpose I believe so I try to keep a little bit of diversity.

I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.

I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

I don't want to do action that doesn't mean anything. Everything I do I want to have character development and three-dimensional characters, fallible humans, and this is definitely one of them.

I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.

I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out. And I can sleep at night because I'm at peace with it.

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.

It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.