I'm able to really enjoy the wonderful things happening to me and that's a great blessing.

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.

I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money.

I'm not very good at taking compliments. It's better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose.

I want to be a good human being.

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

I want to remember to notice the wonders of each day, in each moment, no matter where I am under any circumstance.

They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart.

No place in this world is, as safe as my mother’s womb, And nobody in this world is, as loving as my mother.

Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.

Living in fear is not living at all.

There is no ship now that can bear me hence

Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.

I think that the people that are publicly on Hillary Clinton's short list all are very congenial people. They're not people with personality or Captain Queeg problems.

There s a difference between being in love and being in love with the idea of love.

A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well