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.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.

If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.

Boldness is a crucial element of genius.

The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.

I think a good thing to always remember is to just keep your head on straight and don't lose your feet.

I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything.

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.