I'm quite a smiley guy, I have my moments, but I think I'm generally of a relatively optimistic nature.

As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.

If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always be slightly cynical.

Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical.

You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.

Life is merely terrible

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.

Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz.

I want to be there when you get Cubbin. And I don’t want to be left out of the television show either. Little people are sexy now. Have you seen Game of Thrones? We’re hot.

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves

To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

You only get one you, it’s best to just love yourself.

Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.