There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way.
I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.
The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.
I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.
I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.
Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.
Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.
Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.
My mother's five foot two and, I'll be honest with you, she's the only person I'm scared of.
I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.
I've always been shocked that people that I'm actually flying with say, 'Oh, I feel safer on the plane with you.' I'm thinking, 'You must not watch the show because everybody around me gets killed.'
I've done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can.
If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.
When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I dont have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.
There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.
I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.
If you take a look at our natural history, there's always a moment where the young lion wants to challenge the older lion and, inherently, that's going to be problematic, and I don't think we're any different.
Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.
I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.
I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.
I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.
I had never gone to college, I left school at a really early age, and all of a sudden I've got six really great friends hanging out with me every night. And we were a really tight group, and we just had an absolute blast.
I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.
