I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

I've honestly been so lucky. I've never had a job where I didn't look forward to being on set in the morning.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.

When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.

I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.

I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.

I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.

It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.

You must question everything. You have to always ask why, and if you do not understand the answer, you ask again.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

NO one deserves anything less than being loved.

If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.