I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don’t, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that’s fine, but I can’t work like that.

I’m so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.

I can’t stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don’t like the way I’m doing it they can get someone else.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let’s you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, ‚Well, put your hand over here.‘

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart – they were wonderful actors. They didn’t act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

The quote-unquote ‚description‘ of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it’s about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can’t deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

I’m not in the loop; I don’t know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama’s favorite actors.

I’m a big fan of Aamir Khan… Among actresses, I like Aishwarya Rai.