My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

The day after the darkest hour is always the most beautiful.

If you're strong you live, if you're weak you die.

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.

I stress character, character, character.

So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!

This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.