You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.

Listen to the song of silence to understand the unsung music of the heart.

Don't you think you ought to at least think about getting yourself to your ultimate? Because, trust me, nobody else is going to get you there.

It's hypocritical to expect a job based on a curriculum built out of companies that for whatever reason rejected you.

If there was a mobility service that's cheaper than owning a car, more reliable, and you get to sit in the back seat instead of being stressed out in the front seat, why would you own a car?

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God.

The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.

Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.