I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Come on, this is a real adventure I have here, screamed Mikolay again, this time more impatiently.I think someone is singing inside the wardrobe. Can you hear that?

I shrieked like a little girl, which, if you think about it, makes total sense.

The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent.

When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

People would pay money to work at CNN

The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.