I kind of weirdly fell into being an action hero...I have no f- idea how that happened. You have to remind people that you want to act rather than just run around

Iceland, I'm in love with that country, the people are incredible.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

I love going out. I love partying.

I just don't know anything about fashion.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

It's a nightmare if you're working with someone you don't get on with, especially if you have to be in love with them.

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

We don’t survive to live. We live to survive.

Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.

The theory of relativity doesn't amount to a hill of beans when there's a bonfire in your shorts.

Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means

It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.

For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend it.

Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.