I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

I'm not going to be remotely funny.

Let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime.

Rocket," I said, straightening in the chair. "Donovan was just helping me with my contacts." Donovan raised his brows humorously. Rocket furrowed his. "Did you swallow them?

I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet.

When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

I write a woman's oaths in water.