Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

The temple of art is built in words.

Sometimes the best way to uncover a new goal or dream is to step back, make space, and allow what's next to find you.

I don't ever really sit back and look at roles I've taken and look at any similarities.

The future will be resplendent, and an untold number of souls will be saved, but on one condition: that your sons be devoted to the Blessed Virgin.

Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.

Editing was hard for me. It was hard to be in a room by yourself and not have that collaborative spirit. Comedies are really tight and timing is everything.

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him.