Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.

I have a voice. It's one of my gifts. I intend to use it on behalf of the children that UNICEF seeks to aid.

I certainly believe that being in contact with ones spirit and nurturing ones spirit is as important as nurturing ones body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your character has an instinct as to who this man really is.

People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy.

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

I think everyone is very surprised at how matrix has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Some days are good; some days are not so good. Some days are really exciting. Some days are just tedious. You just have to get up out of bed.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

You know, you have to allow life to play itself out, don't you? And one thing you learn is that it doesn't stop. It moves on.

Out here a man settles his own problems.

It is hard eating a little kangaroo knob.

Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His.

What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.

Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.