At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.

I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.

I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat.

The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer.

Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.

I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.

All SEALS in my mind are equally elite. It doesn't matter if you're SEAL Team Two, One, Six, 10, it doesn't matter. All SEALS are equally elite.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

People are seeing me as the guy who wants to get hurt, who wants to break a bone, get bruises. And that's how it was growing up with six brothers. I got beat up, and I beat up people.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

Week-by-week you grow with your character and it's an interesting challenge.