I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality that’s going to carry you. Because all the rest is just fluff.

We are always just trying to be strong and yet in touch with our bodies and the only way you can really do that is to believe in yourself because that’s all that you have.

Painting is a hobby for me.

And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.

Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.

Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.

If someone came to me and said, "Your strategy in your post-presidency is brilliant," as if I had figured out a way to make me look better, to me, that analysis is amusing.

If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.

Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.

The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.