To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.

I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.

There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.

Two friends... let's put them place... they have never been in jail, give them a knife some reasonable conflicts some doubts and watch the effect.

That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.'

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.

Taking the lead, that was the hard part. To concede after that was a massive disappointment - not good enough.

When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.

Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak.

I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not.