I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.

In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.