For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.

I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.

I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.

I never, ever worry about anybody recognizing me.

I like to run on the beach. It's a different exercise as well when you're in sand, a different kind of training.

I knew 'Like Crazy' would be good, I just knew it, and that's why I fought so hard to be on it.

I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.

Watson represents merely a step in the development of smart machines. Its answering prowess, so formidable on a winter afternoon in 2011, will no doubt seem quaint in a surprisingly short time.

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.

A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone.

An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

I never took any vocal training

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.