My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case exceptional, not just one or two. Take you, for example.

Where you go, he'll go, " Stebbs said."I know it.""Tough caring about people, isn't it?"... "Wouldn't trade it, " she said.

One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people.

Party politics is now a real farce.

The inner journey is as individual as our thumbprint. We need to guide others on their way and never impose our way upon them.

I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.

The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this.

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low.