Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Here, there, every where

We have to choose life. Choose risk. Choose love. The only safe place for our hearts is to dive deeply into the magnificent, eternal, ridiculous, overwhelming love that God has for us.

I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn't particularly helpful.

My only fear is the unknown.

Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.

Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself.

But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.