Communication is important.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.

As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.

On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

Feet, what do I need them forIf I have wings to fly.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

Bragging about your compassion is the first step towards feeling a genuine emotion.

I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

Now more than ever, America needs an agenda for real change.

What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend.

It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position