This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

That’s us, ” he said. “Those five nuts right there.”Which one is me?” I asked.The little deformed one, ” Zoe suggested.Oh, shut up.

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

Maintain purity of heart.Trust in the process.Hold steadfast to your belief of self.Never loose sight of your smile.

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

Excellence begins in the mind. Discipline yourself to be an excellent person at what you want. Everything big, once started little.

Women are the desire behind all dreams.

You are worth infinitely more than you could possibly imagine.

Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife.

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.