I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others.

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

The comforting thing for Australian actors is that there's a strong community in L.A. as well - it's almost like you swap one home for another. I didn't feel any pressure.

Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.

Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

The yardstick that we frequently use to determine if something can be restored is based on the handful of inches that we bring to the process, when God shows up with an infinite amount of miles.

You are an artist, I am an artist, all the people around you and me are artists. Don't try to hide your scars, highlight them with the brush and you'll become an attractive piece of art

Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

You are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpturing is you (Dr. Joe Vitale)

Now, the mistakes that I made with my other two sons, Penny and Kobe, I won't make with D-Wade. We can't let them break us up and we can't break each other up.