There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

The Age of Adaline was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production.

The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.

I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention.

I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times.

I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.

I respect motorcycles so much. They've come such a long way. It's amazing!

I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.

Remind me, " he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!

The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.

I’d rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.

The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.