[ Tom Cruise] that kind of employee that's first to arrive, last to leave.

Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.

I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

I want to make sure everything has my 100%.

When I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see the bad guy.

When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.

Obviously I was talking to my parents and my girlfriend all the time, but it's one thing to finally be in the same room and get to be with each other and just hang out.

I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired by Carlton Cuse and Randall Wallace.

I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.

You are my life now.

Jazz is democracy in music.

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical.

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

I've always liked simplicity.

It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.

Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

I'm a passionate person, and I care deeply about the work I do. It's very, very important to me that it's well received.