Obviously I was talking to my parents and my girlfriend all the time, but it's one thing to finally be in the same room and get to be with each other and just hang out.

Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.

I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

I want to make sure everything has my 100%.

When I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see the bad guy.

When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.

I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired by Carlton Cuse and Randall Wallace.

I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.

You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can paint in broad strokes, which happens a lot in action films, or you can get very detailed.

Those who live are those who fight.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.

You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

To snatch the worm from the trap.