I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

Vampires to me have always been very sexy.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

Let your imagination takes you where you want to be.

Food stall owners reach out with menus, calling out their dinner selections like midway prizes

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

That girl has a special talent

Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.

Complementing the nation-state as it reaches its limits amid globalization: That is what Europe must offer.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.