‚Eastern Promises‘ is great.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

If you go to a bad movie, it’s two hours. If you’re in a bad movie, it’s two years.

I can’t act!

A film is sort of binary – it either works or it doesn’t work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

The worst crime is faking it.

I’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it’s not you going through it.

I saw ‚Magic Mike,‘ and I thought it was great.

The original ‚About Last Night‘ was phenomenal.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

On ‚Think Like a Man,‘ they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It’s so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you’re also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it’s just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

I’m not a playwright.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.