“Several of the actors I’ve had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as ‘ultimate’. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.”

O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me

I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they’ll reach an audience or not.

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It’s unthinkable.

Well, I’m Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I’m the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family.

I don’t like to play the victim.

It’s nice not to be too boring.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

Life’s a wheel of fortune and y’all can’t buy a vowel.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.