Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.

I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.

I've drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!

One day you'll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.

I've never had a good line. Well, maybe 'I must break you'.

In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there's not much time to go to church. But there's other ways to be spiritual, too.

At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.

I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.

I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.

The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.