Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.

I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor.

We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

Other people's minds aside, not even my own mind flows in the way that I wish.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

I got sued more times than Martha Stewart.

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

It is 60 years since the restoration of diplomatic relations, but relations between Japan and Russia have much deeper roots. In all, our diplomatic ties date back 150 years, more than 150 years now.