"Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business."

“The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on The Big C has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so shes warned me what to expect.”

“I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.”

“A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.”

“Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.”

“I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.”

“I have no rules on drinking. In your young days, you can play strong even if you are not healthy. If they want to get drunk and smoke, they can, but not immediately after a match when the body is weak and vulnerable.”

“We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.”

Source : Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.426

“Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.”

Source : General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.32, Pickle Partners Publishing