I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.

Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.

Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.

Gratitude builds a bridge to abundance.

Energy even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed will move mountains.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...

I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

I am very interested in bringing companies from everywhere to sell their products in China.

When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.

I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!

People are more willing to accept a singer as an actor, than an actor as a singer.