I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

The Age of Adaline was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production.

The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.

I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention.

I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times.

I respect motorcycles so much. They've come such a long way. It's amazing!

I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.

There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.

To the stars who listen - and the dreams that are answered.

In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.

I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Im obsessed with socks. I even wear them to bed!

I guess I'm afraid to retire because I don't know what I would do. I don't know what my talent is. So I don't know. So maybe I'm afraid to stop, but I've got to stop.

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.