I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.

I've honestly been so lucky. I've never had a job where I didn't look forward to being on set in the morning.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.

When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.

I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It's part of the human experience, and in a way brings us closer to all people.

Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.

Maybe, in the back of my head, I'm thinking I have to do as much as I can. It'll stop.

In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does not travel fast enough to catch the Italian drivers.

Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.