I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

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.

When someone received immortal love, their life becomes eternal.

Let your hair loose, and enjoy the breeze.Go out into the woods and sit under trees, Do whatever it takes and set your mind at ease.

Never give up hope! If you do, you be dead already.

If the Lord is for you, which He unquestionably is, who else other than yourself would dare to stop you from proclaiming your true destiny?

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

I never liked living in Montreal. And I don't really like the music scene there. It was never my cup of tea, and I never felt like I ever fit in.

To be entirely happy in marriage, the same thing must be important to both.