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

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.

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 get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can paint in broad strokes, which happens a lot in action films, or you can get very detailed.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

Your hair is your helmet- wear it well.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader–not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” -

Whoever thought to name a candy bar Butterfinger has either never seen Last Tango In Paris or seen it far too many times.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.

God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.