“I’m a patriot of the heart.”

I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.

Consider the source, Don’t be a fool by listening to a fool.

I think that’s become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family – a statement – and you can afford it, then that’s a noble project.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn’t do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me – action pictures.

Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.

I tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.

I’m not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren’t straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they’re going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I’m serious.

If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it’s moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I’m probably the trombone.

All young men want to prove themselves.

Nothing is real if you don’t believe in who you are!

When you’re pushed killing is as easy as breathing.

A lot of guys don’t want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

I followed my heart and it lead me back to myself.

To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.

People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.

Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.

I think my all time favourite song would be between ‘Slow Dancing in a Burning Room’ and ‘Dreaming with a Broken Heart’ by John Mayer.

The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

Protect your heart and soul from the anxious lies of your thoughts. Stay in the light, stay in the truth.