Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.

You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.

When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.

I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.