When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

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.

She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

Never allow your head to be buried in the grave of the fearful, mediocrity, and purposeless. Get up and begin to produce something great with your life. Stand out and stand tall.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.

Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.