My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.

You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.

By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.

I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise.

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.

It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.

I think anybody who has a soul would themselves and their needs aside to help other people.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the movie is and if it matches my vision and then we go after it.

There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.

The deep map configures narratives. It is a matrix of intertexual storytelling, charting our movements through the landscape.

My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart or low.

If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu.

That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold.

All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.