Do what you're doing while you're doing it.

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

I love talking about Scientology.

Without Scientology, I would be in an alley somewhere looking for dope.

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful

We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is

Don't judge a book by its movie.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

One of the really nice things about having the time to do a movie is that you can fine tune it. With TV, you really need A-level people to make a good TV show because it's moving so fast.

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.

This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.