I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

The secret is to just keep moving.

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

Difference is always the biggest challenge for humans. That's why we do enjoy reading or watching movies or watching TV. It's a personal challenge to get close to people that we never get close to.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.

As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected.

When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.

Don't give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. - Councilman Sadler

For if you succeed in making this girl laugh, if you make her laughter ring in the air like a fountain of silver coins cascading to the floor, you will win her heart forever.

I'm so deeply in love with you it's hard to fathom. No words could provide quantifiable resonance or measure.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

Unavailable wars are always just.