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.

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.

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 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.

In the morning, lift my hands towards the heavens. And surrender my heart in prayer to the Most High God.

If you've delayed achieving your goals, have you ever asked yourself, "What's stopping you?

I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

Never give in or give up easily on a cause.

The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light...There really is no primary self anymore.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

Over the years, I've learned that a confident person doesn't concentrate or focus on their weaknesses - they maximize their strengths.

The less the consumer knows about what's happening before the meat hits the plate, the better.

Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.