I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

Being fired is something... You have to really want to be an actor after you go through something like that. Because the level of self-doubt and insecurity that creeps into your psyche is monumental.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.

If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.