I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

I have loved by far the majority of the people I've worked with and the experiences I've had.

I love being in the business I'm in-I do love being a part of a group of people that work well together. I love it when there's a connection.

I still try to do what I've always said I would do, which is say yes to the things that make my heart beat faster, particularly if there's something scary about it.

We tend to love things that are left of center anyway.

It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

I relax into bliss. I am content and full of joy.

Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of streets.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

I have many unrecognized talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition.

If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.

If there is a heaven, it must be here on earth because the earth is so beautiful.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

If somebody tells me I'm famous I say, 'I'm not.' I can't see myself as famous and I don't think I'll ever call myself famous. I definitely don't feel famous. To me, this is just a job.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.