I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.

Sometimes people say things they don't mean, and you just have to let it go.

I wake up at the same time every day to get to the gym.

I'm glad that I lost, I'm glad that I failed, I'm glad that I felt that way and decided to do something about it... I never wanted to feel that way again and it drove me.

I was single long enough, and when I was, it wasn't about putting notches in the bedpost.

The best love advice I've ever received is probably, 'I'm not leaving the relationship; I'm just leaving the house.'

Women do a lot of uncomfortable things for men - and I appreciate it all. I appreciate high heels. I appreciate thongs.

I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification

When I'd be out-and-about at a club and the music would come on, I was never the guy that was gonna dance. But after Magic Mike - I have like two or three go-to moves. That's what Magic Mike gave me.

Courage?" I gave a very soft laugh. "I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do what we must.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

Gratitude is a Beautiful Virtue but don't get offended when ingratitude is shown or your good deeds.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent.

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.