My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

With every action oriented or adventure film, there's going to be a moment when every actor becomes a stuntman and every stuntman becomes an actor. You try to do as much of it as you can, but inevitably the studio wants you to finish the movie. So you've got to slow down and you're really got to defer to your team to make sure you do.

I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate.