Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

Write before the sun comes up.

True love is like wine, it gets stronger with age.

The final result of all life is your awareness. Your awareness is existence.

Are you crazy? I don't want to wear ideas. I don't want to have all these complicated thing.

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.

I will find a way to you if it kills me if it kills me if it kills me (I think it might kill me).

I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.