The hardest thing was going through different stages of weight loss. At the beginning, it was easy to take off the weight with exercise and eating less but then you reach a point where 90 per cent of the weight loss is achieved purely through reducing your calorie intake. My goal was to lose four pounds per week. That worked well for the first few months but then things got tricky.

So to any of us, whatever those things are: whatever it is we look up to, whatever it is we look forward to, and whoever it is we're chasin'. To that I say: Amen. To that I say: Alright, alright, alright. To that I say: Just keep livin'. Thank you.

I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.

If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full - a heavy, full, waxing moon. Do not cut it when the moon's waning.

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.