My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.

People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.

I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.

I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

Iam not scared of death because I don'twant to live this useless life.

Now go with me and with this holy manInto the chantry by: there, before him, And underneath that consecrated roof, Plight me the full assurance of your faith.

As long as the focus is on God the style of the music is irrelevant.

You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.

Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.

I am the kind of dude that would go to your seventh grade class and sit at the back of the classroom and stare at all your butts.

My family, theyre story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we werent allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.