Differences of power are always manifested in asymmetrical access.

I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.

What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?

I wish you would notice that you are heterosexual.

It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

I normally ignore the History Channel.

When you make a movie with Alejandro Amenábar, he very quickly... it was very clear you're kind of operating in his dream universe.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice

Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.

Toronto's one of my favourite places. If I were to move anywhere out of California, it would be Toronto. Definitely.

Confidence begets confidence. Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone. Courage in danger is half the battle.

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.