Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.

My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.

I think I was about 16 when I first figured I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a fighter pilot before that, but then I thought I don't want to kill people so that ruled that out.

People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.

I think it's quite good to have an amount of unavailability.

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

I don't think I've got enough energy to be competitive! Most of my energy is just devoted to me being nervous and trying to deal with the situation.

The only person I can amaze is me.

Actually, I was the very lowest ranked member of the crew. I would only be “in command” if I were the only remaining person.”What do you know? I’m in command

It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.

The surest of stubborn silences is not to hold one's tongue but to talk

I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.

Whether we are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, whatever our nationality, colour, social status or ideology may be, the purpose of our lives is to be happy

Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.