I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

Eventually you'll get tired of going through the motions with very little emotion.

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

...our family became a place where you screamed for help but no one heard, not ever.

Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.

Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.