There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.

A book is a collected thoughts and lessons in one place, a quote is a lesson which is learnt.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.

I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world.

This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Together we can save America itself.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.