I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

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.

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.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

It doesn't matter what you think about consciousness, higher truths, or different dimensions - it's what you do and what you are that counts.

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.

With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.

During my five years on Mauna Kea, workers routinely displayed the symptoms of Cerebral Hypoxia

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.