In the same way 'Lord of the Rings' was an interpretation of the book, 'The Hobbit' is being treated the same way. It will be faithfully represented with a fresh interpretation.

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

Intelligence does not always define wisdom, but adaptability to change does.

God is merciful to all who repent and turn to Him.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window

I think the best and most we can do for ourselves is to find the thing we love to do, and then do it as if our very life depended upon doing it.

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.

All that you are seeking is also seeking you.

You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.