I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

For an actor, it's very important to get a clear idea of what a director wants, and their intention for what they want to get out of a scene and how they want to shoot it. Having that knowledge is really valuable, for an actor. It means you can deliver more.

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions about things, and really get in there and examine it.

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.