I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.

One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it.

I have only been acting since I was about eighteen. I couldn't imagine doing anything else. I don't think there is anything else I could do.

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.

Passion lights the fire in every soul.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

There have been times in Life when my light has been extinguished and the smoldering embers of it were blown back into flame by another. I give deepest Thanks to all that have rekindled my light.

When thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet 'underneath' thee 'are everlasting arms'. Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ's great atonement is still under all.

Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.