I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

If you don't have dreams, you will end up working for people who do.

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.

I've never sold my company or products.

Its who you know and who can help you.

The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.

Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

In your pursuit of godliness, have you left Jesus behind?

Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children.

Loving what you do is the secret to everything.

I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.