I had never thought about being a professional fighter but meeting Pat [ Militich ] and the guys just pushed me in that direction.

You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

I don't need to do all the trash talking. I try to do it with my fists, my knees, and my feet.

It's all about getting better and controlling the things that you can control, which is getting better day to day.

Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.

I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better.

I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.

What I've learned from those losses... Priceless.

It's about falling down and getting back up.

It's all about... getting back up and getting back to work and striving to be the best you can be.

I did a lot of smoker fights and fought pretty much every week since Pat wouldn't let me fight until he was sure I was ready. I was also boxing and so I had 30 unofficial fights or more of those.

London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day

It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

Never in my career have I got the support for what I'm doing, any more than I have on Fringe.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.