The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and horses, and they wouldn't understand you.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.

Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

In making a movie, you're part of a big machine. Even in a small movie there are still so many people involved in the process, and it costs so much money to make.