Born on February 15th

"Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished."

"As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows."

"I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose."

"I never went to drama school. It's a brilliant thing for the right type of person, but I threw myself in the deep end."

"I hate horror movies. I get really scared, and I don't want to be scared. I don't know why, but I'm one of those people who gets frightened and can't go to sleep."

"I've become an actor rather than trying to be one, if that makes sense."

"It's cool to be nervous, and how the nerves come out sideways. That's why some actors scream their heads off, or it comes out in their hair."

"I watched 'Free Willy' probably 100 times. I nearly wore out the VHS tape. That movie was my introduction to Michael Madsen. When I finally saw 'Reservoir Dogs', I was like, 'That's the guy from 'Free Willy'!' - which is probably the wrong way around."

"As your journey goes on, you're continuously learning from everyone."

"I played tennis at underneath - Brooklyn Bridge? Manhattan Bridge? Williamsburg Bridge? There are courts on the Manhattan side."

"Imagining what a character will do in a given situation - it's like an equation, and working it out is a marathon rather than a sprint."

"15 people in a room looking at you with no clothes on - that's a little weird."

"Al Pacino, De Niro, Daniel Day Lewis - they're the best out there because everything they do comes from a very honest place."

"I played semi-professionally for a season, and there's an element of performance to being a footballer, stepping onto the pitch: you feel like a gladiator walking into a colosseum."

"The worst costume is when you don't have a costume."

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."

"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."

"Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed."

"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in."

"And yet it moves."

"The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."

"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."

"Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?"