I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

I personally think if something's not a challenge there's no point doing it because you're not gonna learn much.

I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.

You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids.

And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

I'm very dedicated to the things I do.

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.