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I'm always friendly and encouraging on set. I want people to be at their best creatively.

If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day.

Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.

I want to give my kids the world, but I also want them to appreciate everything, to succeed, to be good people, to enjoy life. This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle.

The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem.

You can't have a conscience in the pimp game.

All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

It's ridiculous that people call me a sex symbol. I don't feel like that at all. My daughter would get a kick out of it - she'd find it very funny. I'll take it though. I'm very humble. But it's certainly not the way I feel.

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.

Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.

Well, I would love it if they could take all the guns away. Unfortunately, you can't do that so you hope that good people in the world have them to protect the people who can't protect themselves.

Justin Bieber is like the white Tupac. Compared to a lot of people.

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.