For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

Overcoming what frightens you the most strengthens you the most.

Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no, ' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

I took two important phone calls while in the shower today because I'm a goddam professional.

The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.

If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.