If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

There is so much in the world to care about.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

[Amy Sedaris] probably can't sit still, that type of thing. She's a force to be reckoned with.

I think the Statue of David is pretty sexy. I'd do him.

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

When I visited Auschwitz I was horrified. And when I visited Iraq, I thought to myself, 'What will we tell our children in fifty years when they ask what we did when the people in Iraq were dying.'

I think that if you're doing something that's important, that's significant in your life, it takes some of the pain away.

When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.

South African rugby doesn't have to stand back for anyone.