In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

I still don't look like what I think I look like.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

He who is brave is free

Communication is really a two-way process with listenining being as important as speaking. Enhancing one's listening skills is therefore as important as enhancing one's speaking skills.

Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you.

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'

What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.

I really do not think about 'Oh, right now I have to defend those points and this title.' I just really want to enjoy playing on the court, in front of the fans.

You can't believe everything you read. It's never been more true.

Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?