I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

Whoever walk with great people will be great.

When we free ourselves from desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. "Just remember not to try to hard with understanding it, " Sylvia says. "Like people, they're best not to be too thoroughly understood.

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

It isn't love when another person cannot give you the space to live your own life.

Unpredictability is closely related to uncontrollability.

No one is so good that he has no bad in him, & no one is so bad that he has no good in him

t's not that I'm particularly shy but I just don't like the idea of publicising myself as a 'celebrity'.