Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.

It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.

'It's been almost a month since you found a body. I knew you were due.'

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.

I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

There's nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness where you don't hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they didn't know and for the things they didn't know to do.