I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

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.

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success

Friends and fire didn’t go well together.

Moments come & moments go, but can last a lifetime in your heart. Make them count!

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

Art should be born from the materials.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.