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.

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

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

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.

Always be grateful for life, love, and joy.

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.

I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!