I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

Iceland, I'm in love with that country, the people are incredible.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

I love going out. I love partying.

I just don't know anything about fashion.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

It's a nightmare if you're working with someone you don't get on with, especially if you have to be in love with them.

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

When I see you smile, I feel a volcano of magical eruptions happening within my heart!

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.

I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people.

I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didnt have to be a gigolo. In real life.

The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.