We don't want to go to a movie and sit in a lecture.

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.

I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money.

I'm not very good at taking compliments. It's better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose.

I want to be a good human being.

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

Sometimes the worst-tasting crap is the best for you.

Talented person is talented everywhere.

Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

Only those who find life, find treasures.

You don't have the same experiences as all of your friends, hopefully. Instead, you meet people and something clicks.

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.