Meditation has changed my life.
When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away.
A film is the director’s medium. The theater is an actor’s.
Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn’t, they’d spit on me in the street.
To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn’t raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I’m passionate about food!
I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it’s everything and if you don’t do well, your life’s over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.
I once sang ‘Summer Nights,’ from ‘Grease,’ at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who’s a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny – sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar – while I got stuck playing Sandy.
I’ve always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.
I hate being frightened of things. I’m not someone who can say: “Oh, I’m scared of flying, I won’t fly.” Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there’s something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it.
Salvatore Ferragamo have done some nice handmade suits for me.
Doing anything worthwhile takes forever.
When your dreams becoming reality, they’re no longer your dreams.
I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The joy of life is partly in the strange and unexpected. It is in the constant exclamation ‘Who would have thought it?’
Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Thing are made slowly and in pain.
The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself.
The moment your kid’s born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don’t care. You’re basically making it up as you go along.
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.
When you’re playing an icon like Wolverine, it’s sometimes better to be someone that nobody knows because they don’t know what to expect. I don’t mind a little bit of anonymity; it helps on the subway.
Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.