As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

Truth in Christ is not a matter of being near or far like in martial arts when you strive for a black belt. He saves us then we grow

Education does not solve any problem but it gives you the ability to solve the problem.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

Some of the federal programs to help homeowners were never fully implemented.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

A woman should live with two men; one more a lover and the other more a friend.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs.

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.