I would love to be in the position where the role is challenging enough that I need three months to prepare for it and then six months to live the life of character.

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

My favourite British spots are any of the beautiful parks, especially on a sunny day such as this, after a long stretch of cold, cloudy and rainy days.

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.

I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.

Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.

I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.

I am one of the lucky ones; believe me, I haven't forgotten that.

Most actors, unless they're big movie stars and can carve out huge chunks of time to focus on one movie that takes six months - the rest of us have to jump around to make ends meet.

If you want more influence, love more people.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young - not her face.

Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'

I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

What the world has to eradicate is fear and ignorance.

Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.

I'm convinced people are bored of generic travel

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward.

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever.