And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.

I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

I'll always be a foreigner.

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

The HurricaneThe tree lay downon the garage roof and stretched, You have your heaven, it said, go to it.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

You have psychopaths and sociopaths in charge.

It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it.

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.

Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.

I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.