The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though.

Iceland, I'm in love with that country, the people are incredible.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

I love going out. I love partying.

I just don't know anything about fashion.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

It's a nightmare if you're working with someone you don't get on with, especially if you have to be in love with them.

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

As long as the forest stood the Tchetchens were unconquerable... and it is literally the fact that they were beaten in the long run not by the sword but by the axe.

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

A comedian is better than a politician

The law works in mysterious ways

Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

I don’t know any redneck that’s not into fun. That’s their middle name: Red-Fun-Neck.