Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

I just gravitate to those more testosterone-filled sort of parts than me playing something a bit more fairy-like.

Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.