I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

You never know how things will turn out. And you can't really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

The essence of darkness is the knowledge of what blocks the light.

When you have an unshakeable faith in what you seek, the length of its journey becomes irrelevant.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell 'action' and 'cut.'

The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn't win enough games.

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

Religion is removed from the public realm, and the public realm is removed from the affairs of religion. However, this is not neutrality. Implicitly, it supports secularism.