I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.

Atlanta is an incredibly cool city.

I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

I take the fan response very seriously and respond personally to my fan mail.

Hope is an earnest expectation.

If we listen and observe carefully the dying can teach us important things that we need to learn in preparing for the end of our own life's journey.

Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.

If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

No clock is more regular than the belly.

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

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