Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.

Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.

It was fun shooting with Josh [Holloway], not just how great he is, but just how handsome he is.

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.

Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.

Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

Out of adversity comes opportunity.

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I dont Twitter or anything.

Everything human is pathetic

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: "How are you?" and "I want to work with Johnny Depp."

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.