“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.”

If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

I have dangerous bones in my body.

The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.

When you come onto the set, everything should be focused around your character and you should stay in the pocket, as much as possible. Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket.

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

We all deal with being unfairly judged.

It wasn’t until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

IT don’t matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

Nothing comes easy when I’m in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.

Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn’t getting any acting jobs.

If you believe in the project, you have to support it.

I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

I think there’s something we all relate to about wanting to get to our most primal self.

I’m a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust – you adopt it from being a New Yorker.

We’ve come a long way, from where we’ve been. I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

Many casting directors won’t hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick’s headshot under the table so she doesn’t get the part.

All the big actors are now on TV, and all the big actors have come from TV. It’s a great platform.

I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It’s – but it all goes back to ‘Mary Tyler Moore,’ ‘Golden Girls,’ all those – actors love to take the credit. We couldn’t do it without the writers.

Every actor is remembered for one particular film.

I want to be an artist, an actor who acts really well.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I’m not a movie star. I’m just an actress.