From my point of view, it's very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say "not act," what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

Authenticity inspires. Just be real.

It's you, ” David says, “our queen with your crown, going into some body of water where we cannot follow you.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.