I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.

It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

I love people. People are lovely creatures. I'm one myself, so I love to see people happy.

The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.

I think it's important that you always transform if you can. That's what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can - that's the key to longevity.

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

Fast movement during exercise does not produce fast muscles, or strong muscles, or large muscles, it produces only one thing, a thing to be avoided, it produces injuries.

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history.

You don't scream because you're scared. You scream on purpose.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.