Every little moment has a meaning all its own.

Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.

Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.

That which hinders your task is your task.

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

You never know what will be expected of you, so you just go out and play.

No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right.

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.