When you are given an opportunity to make a film like 'Body of Lies' - and I would put 'Blood Diamond' in the same category - of course you jump at these opportunities.

I don't know if I'm more confident than ever before, because I definitely had confidence when I was starting out. Maybe I have less confidence now that I did then.

I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.

I saw all the moral decay you could, beginning at 2 years old. But I also got to see how the other half lived.

I love science fiction, but I have a hard time feeling for characters in a galaxy far away. Choosing movies is the one thing in my life where there's no compromising.

I haven't died in a movie in a while,'The Departed,' 'Body of Lies,' 'Revolutionary Road,' 'Shutter Island' and 'Inception.' I guess I did die in 'The Departed.'

I went to a concert once when I was a little kid and ran up onstage, started dancing, started saying anything that came to my head. I was like a little vaudevillian.

My friends have named me the person they least want to do extreme adventures with, because I always seem to be very close to being part of a disaster. If a cat has nine lives, I think I've used a few.

I love scuba diving, and I've been up and down the Amazon.

Hopefully I've gotten better as an actor as the years have gone on, but the type of work I want to do has never changed.

I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction.

I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

I am friends with Demi. Don't believe anything you read.

If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.

I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.

The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.

I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

I was a bit of a loudmouth, and I was in an environment where the elements aligned to have kids smack the hell outta me once in a while.

I am not of the vein of actors - and I will not pretend to be one - that takes my character home with me. I don't.

I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is the devil's workshop. I like to focus on something.

If a studio is going to offer me the opportunity to invite my mother and grandmother and all my friends to visit me free of charge in Thailand, I'm going to take that opportunity.

I've always been a slow starter. My first date was with a girl called Cessi. We had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer, and then when we met, I couldn't look her in the eye.

To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.

I have a production company,; I have a foundation. I have a lot of responsibilities. Not family - just a lot of responsibilities.

I certainly don't eat raw bison liver on a regular basis.

A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa. Half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me.

Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.

Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.

My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the biggest outsider there ever was; that I'd never belong in that club.