We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

If we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching reasonable political discourse.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

I forgive, but I also learn a lesson. I won’t hate you, but I’ll never get close enough for you to hurt me again. I can’t let my forgiveness become foolish.

Milk many cows but make your own butter.

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful