Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

It was much more than bricks and stone - It was an idea.

We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing and personally experiencing pain.

A child is the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.

Loss taught me. Loss taught me that death comes to both the old and the young.

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.

I didn't want to play a mediocre villain. I wanted to go full-on.

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.

You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. [Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.]