“If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for Iron Giant, and I’m not even on the screen.”

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

I haven’t had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

I don’t think a lot of actors talk about it, but there’s usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I’m doing or dream projects I have.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn’t be that, I’d want to be a superhero.

It’s insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

I’m a boy who appreciates a good body, regardless of the make.

I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There’s something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.

I’ve turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.

Any film that you see is never just the director. If it’s a film that you love, it’s not so easy to say, “Oh it’s directed by this person – that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful.”

I can’t go white, Indian, Asian, Latin. For me, in my existence, if I’m anything, I’m inclusive of everyone, and we are just one, and I hope that global harmony is in all of us.

I am definitely a person of color.

I’m a fantasy guy. So I brought the fantasy element to the Riddick, David Twohy brought the sci-fi, and it came together.You see that in every aspect of the film.

Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

Baby cuddles are the best.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.

Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.