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

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 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 don't change. The things around me change.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.

And, you know, I don’t want to have to worry that she is going to get sick as the consequence of having, having her lunch.

With kids, they don't do what you want them to do when you want them to do it. Organizations don't necessarily, either. You've got to listen. You've got to learn how to influence.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.