I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

You should always think about things that excite you and that you can learn from.

I look like a turnip with hair in the morning!

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.

I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.

I've always been astonished by how wonderful he [Timur Bekmambetov] makes something look for so little. I think he shoots action like no one else.

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We are here on earth for a while.

That's the dating world. You just keep losing. Everyone does.

I just hold it down for my side, I just hold it down for my set. I just give everybody a piece of this and make do with what's left.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

My wife's gotten really lazy, or as she calls it, 'pregnant.'

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.