It is really awkward to see myself on screen.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.

You know, tigers are very unpredictable.

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

I might survive a few days at sea. Probably not as long as Pi.

Ambition interests me because it’s such a surefire indicator of damage.

I'm too much old-timer to be rude to a woman no matter what - they have so much of what we have none of.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

If it matters, it produces controversy.

Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?