I like to run on the beach. It's a different exercise as well when you're in sand, a different kind of training.

I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.

I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.

I never, ever worry about anybody recognizing me.

I knew 'Like Crazy' would be good, I just knew it, and that's why I fought so hard to be on it.

I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.

For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.

Why that was the stars, my little ones, ' growled Kar, lifting his proud eyes to the endless heavens. 'For in the beginning, there was light.

One doesn't fall in love... one digs a hole for himself to trip in... claiming he didn't see it coming

I don’t want to do what my idols did… I want to do more than they did. And I feel like I’m on my way.

In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.

You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail.

A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.

One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.

Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too.

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

Can you see the beauty in a cockroach?