I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.

Too bad, Elizabeth. You're Stuck with me.Not for a few decades, not for centuries. You're tied to me forever. That boy and girl offspring you talked off? They'll come from me--or no one.

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

How do I relax? This might sound slightly ridiculous but I play the ukulele for at least an hour a day and I find something really blissful about it.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.