And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

Careers are not made in a family business, they are born – by patricide. Then they die from neglect, and avoid the tragedy of being put out of business.

We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.

one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and was by was

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.