I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

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.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other w

it wasn’t until the train went past that she saw the small body lying in the long grass by the side of the wood.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.

I don't eat any toxic chemicals, and I eat organic as often as possible.

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?

If you want to study writing, read Dickens

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.