To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

The best tourist is one without a camera

Talking to liberals is much more fun now that we have Lexis-Nexis.

I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

Religion is a mere question of geography.

Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies.

Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

When you step into that boat you have made a silent commitment to your team that you will do everything in your power to help them win.

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