“After I did the first Die Hard I said I’d never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.”

At 25, you’ve got millions of brain cells to kill.

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

It doesn’t matter how many people I’ve killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.

All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It’s only in the execution that they fail. I’ve been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it’s a director’s prerogative and you gotta go with it.

There’s a long history of all kinds of cop films… But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things – and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

I think I’m even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I’m less caught up with my career.

I hate government. I’m apolitical. Write that down. I’m not a Republican.

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

I think I’m much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It’s a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.

I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls.

Die Hard 2 was okay. It was a little outside the template but it was okay, a hard movie to make technically. Did well at the box office. Successful.

Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.

You wouldn’t want to see a movie where the bad guys triumph over the good guys all the time. You’d get bummed out, and you’d just stay at home and watch the news.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.