Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering. I think it's in suffering that we realize our best selves.

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.

The climate informs the character.

As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

We savour on great memories of happy times.

Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Cousins are more then cousins, there best friends that are their through it all.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

I'm a monster, I'm a maven, I know this world is changin'. Never gave in, never gave up, I'm the only thing I'm afraid of.

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.