It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

We don't live. We're miming in the choir.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are.

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

In life you have the freedom to pursue whatever your heart desires.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

Then came nightthat was like falling water.At times, for hours, a bird spirit, half buzzard, half swan, just above the rushesfrom which a snow-storm howls.

I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.

A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.