I just directed The Jungle Book with Cate Blanchet and Christian Bale.

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

To lose--get angry and fight back. To win--forgive with love.

Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul.

You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path.

People who want to get everything all at once, usually end up getting nothing in life.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

If these two couldn't divorce why on earth would we expect them to get married?

I don't know why anybody does anything in the world of television.

I grew up as a kid with very little. I could enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter crackers.

I don't claim to have found the Truth, but I know it has found me.