There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.

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.

A person with a victim complex is unable to set goals and achieve them independently

To be infinite, lose yourself in infinite love.

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?

I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.

Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.