My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

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.

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.

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.

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages.

Be the spouse you wish to have.

Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.

Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.

Surround yourself with like-minded, strong people, use your voices and choose courage over fear.

Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.

The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

I'm a guy who works very hard and if I want something bad enough, I'm going to do anything possible to get it.

There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.