The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

we are too busy listening to our thoughts that we don't hear the wonderful sounds surrounding us...

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

Am I good enough to go to Heaven?

Rock is always about rebelling against the parents.

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.