Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

... one can't live without falling now and again.

Five years of someone's life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment.

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking.

Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.

Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.