Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.

I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.

Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.

As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.

Dreams can only become reality when they are sought after with the spirit of boldness.

All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.

If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.

Everybody makes mistakes; look at Hitler.

If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.

My father was a deeply spiritual, prophetic man, [who] I adored. I watched him pray as a boy and wanted to know the "Jesus" he shed tears for.

I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.