If you pay a little bit of attention to something, and then let it go, and then come back to it, and then pay a little bit of attention to something, that's nice and healthy.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way.

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.

I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

Growth-oriented performance demands sustained entrepreneurial efforts.

I was enjoying the great human trophy hunt and, looking back, it scares the hell out of me

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.

With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em.

We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose, ultimately are part of international big-power politics.

I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.

The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times