I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.

If I'm going to do something, I really put everything into it and I want it to mean something to me.

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

I know a lot of the intense moments in 'Titanic' were made that much easier and were pushed to even further limits because of that relationship.

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries.

Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.