Quotes

I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.

Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

It's fun playing villains. It's people who are not held by any moral constraints - or any constraints, for that matter. It's a chance to be completely off the leash and do things that you never could in real life.

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

It's never easy to lose. But life is not all sunshine and roses.

The fear of failing... not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.

For my part, I am not a great believer in bad luck on the cricket field, in business - in fact, in any walk of life.

It's a huge honour to play my 100th Test, and I never in my life thought I'll be in this kind of position.

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I'm not, like, a brat.

I'd love to have more kids. I'm one of four, and I've always dreamed of having a huge family. I've loved every second of having Sophia. It's been just the most amazing time of my life. I'd love more of it.

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.