The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

Listening is the essence of anything.

It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

Lasse [Hallström] is really good at emotionally engaging an audience without hitting them over the face with it.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

The kindest and most compassionate people I have come across are not religious.

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.

There will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.