People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

My face is my career.

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.

I only eat things that you don't have to kill.

Nemo intrat in caelum nisi per philosophiam

Some days I don't know what is greater.My wisdom, or my stupidity.

It is far easier to live an excellent life among your friends, when you are putting your best foot forward and are conscious of public opinion, than it is to live for Christ in your home.

Privilege" is something else."Privilege" is a judgment."Privilege" is an opinion."Privilege" is an accusation.

I don't want any minister to pray for me. But if you want a minister there to pray for the crowd, I won't object.

The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure.

I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.