The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

Christian myth, reveals the truth that "the Christian was (and is) still like his forefathers a mortal hemmed into a hostile world.

Disbelief is the strongest tool in our arsenal.

love is form, and cannot be without important substance

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.

Luck is like an atheistic word for God.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.