Not judging people is the fastest way to peace.

I walked away from this movie thinking how important it is to have a genuine selfless love for your children. You can really mess kids up if you don't have the right kind of love for them.

Gratitude is the root of joy.

I'd rather live forever in Heaven than a place where there's terrorism and hate.

That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

"Silence Of The Lambs" is definitely very frightening.

When I manage to keep my center, it's usually because I've taken prayer seriously.

Being joyful is a choice.

Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray.

There's nothing better than actually getting to watch the person and see his or her mannerisms.

I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want.

Two things you should never do in a hurry: make up and revenge.

America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."

I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do.

Somehow in the middle of the L.A. trendiness, Boston conservation, New York chic and San Francisco intellectual mellow, there's a place where everything meets.

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.