I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

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.

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.

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.

When there's nothing but humility, there's nothing but spiritual oneness.

If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.

Love is still something I'm learning about.

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.

He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are.