It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

The goal of leadership is not to be likable or loved but to be proven trustworthy and respected.

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.

The difference between an Employer and an Employee is that as payday approaches, the Employee is full of hope and expectation while the Employer is full of fear and trepidation

No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.

It turned out that building mobile software was a lot more like building hardware... where you had 1 shot and you had to get it right, right out of the gate.

There will be beautiful times and tough times, as such is life, but if your heart is in it, then it is worth it all the way.

I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.

Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.