I prefer smaller movies because they tend to be more about character than about story.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

You never know how things will turn out. And you can't really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.

I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal.

The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

Every storm runs, runs out of rain

I think the first villain that I ever played was on Stargate. I was this superior being that would take over a human host and believe that he was the most superior being in the universe.

Love's a weird one, isn't it? I've never told my husband Graham that I love him. He's never told me either. I think it started as a bit of a joke. We just decided never to say it.

I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones.

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.