Everyone holds a secret and that's just true about everyone. So at the end of the day it's amazing what people will do when they're backed up in a corner.

I've always been curious about the monster that lives under your bed. Even at 30 years old you lean over the bed to see if there's something under there, potentially.

I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week.

My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. Its great leverage; we abuse it all the time!

I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I really want to do.

Not everyone who sells Christmas trees believes in Santa Claus.

I have to give props to my stunt double, who is the real deal and gets to do all the fun stuff and make me look good.

My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

The little boy in me always wanted to be a treasure hunter.

I think people's soul - I think you can kind of see it - there's what they say and there's what they do.

It's fun to get the script every Monday morning and go, "Cool!" I'm a professional actor, but I'm also a professional story lover. I get off on that thrill.

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous.

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.