I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

Your liberty will not be freely given to you.You must be bold to liberate yourself.

…she had no resources for solitude…

If I died, I’d expect my guy to mourn me forever, and if he tried to hook up with someone else, I’d haunt him till he ended up in a crazy house. Then I’d haunt the girl.

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.

A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.