God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

You can cross the Rubicon in a boat without getting wet, but surely, getting wet is the baptism before you begin that new life on the other side.

Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.