When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.

I think my ultimate directorial style is 'play.' In reference to theater, it's called a play - I believe in that noun, and the verb that goes with it.

A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself.

If everyone thinks you're bizarre and creepy, then you play bad guys. If everyone thinks you're beautiful and wants to kiss you, then you play the lead role.

When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.

I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.

One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.

Richness is not about what you have. It is about who you are.

When you hear the elephant music you're hearing what they mean to make.

There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

I love running and I will always run.

Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.

At the end of the day, honoring God leads to good things. Anything else leads to confusion, emotional exhaustion and a lack of good things.

Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.

You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.