“I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.”

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

“When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.”

“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”

Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

It was just the two of us, inside there with just mirrors, all the way around us. Everywhere we looked, there were these two freaks, sitting at a table, eyeballing each other.

For me, I think the harder the shoot, the more I feel like I'm enjoying myself.

I certainly liked performing [Patrick Bateman], but it was because he thinks he's so [bloody] cool and just the [stuff], but is really such a cheesy dork.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

“The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms. ”

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”