First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for 'The Passion of the Christ'? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff.

I like to sneak in under the radar. I don't have any paparazzi following me or have to deal with that stuff. I'm never in the tabloids. I prefer that.

I try not to worry about what that's going to look like. If you worry about looking stupid, that's when you look really stupid.

Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so

Sharks are like dogs. They only bite when you touch their private parts.

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything

I want to make films that make people laugh hard, and I am not afraid to walk away from this business tomorrow.

People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world... have you thought about polo?'

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than their, it is because they are made with ideas.

No matter your reason, if you sacrifice your health, you’re making the wrong choice.

I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.

I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.

[On the Dating Handbook] 'With a telescope, some munchies, and a warm blanket, watch for Halley's comet.' Yeah. I like that. There's no time limit. Just sit there and grow old together.

Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.