I take great responsibility in any character that I play.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

When life throws trials and tribulations towards you, shield your destiny with courage, faith and perseverance.

I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable.

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.

God's not going to promote you because you have a dream, He's going to promote you because you've maximized where you are so now you're ready to go to the next level.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.