I think it's great to be a part of a franchise that is successful. Any franchise is successful because it's a continuation and people have seen it.

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

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.

We cry to release the soul of its pain.

Keep your heart open for love

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.

The idea of it [Star Wars] is really exciting, but the most fun part is the actual job you get to do: the character that you get to play, the people that you work with, the day-to-day experience.

The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.

I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size.

To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.