I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don’t know what a child actor is. She’s an actor who’s a child.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.

I believe in singing.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I’m much more expressive off stage.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there’s no use.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

I play a nobody in Japan.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.