“I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‘Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.’ I don’t want to be part of that.”

I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go.

It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’

My last name is originally Irish. I’m not exactly sure whereabouts it’s from, but I’ve got family branches that were traced back there.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

I love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool – ‘Oh yeah, I’m fine, I’m on top of this’ – but I was completely lost.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been?

Do I feel like I’m 65? No. I feel like I’m 15. That’s my problem.

I used to be a very angry person, I used to throw things and break them. Then I had five years of constant psycho-analysis, and I don’t get angry any more.

I’m trying as hard as I can to act like I’m 65, but it’s very difficult.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.