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.

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.

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.

In fact, my face has shrunk in the meantime, but it won't be particularly noticeable because it's covered up with hair. So I hope I'm not alarmed if I ever do sit through the five movies.

The road ahead is long and there will be many setbacks. Success is not assured… but the price of failure has never been this high.

Your body is a temple and I'm in need of serious prayer.

If you read great literature every day, you will uplift your spirit, soul and self.

I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.

I hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hateTo know that for destruction iceIs also great

A gust of wind set the leaves of grass to dancing and celebrated the grass's song before it died.

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

Aromatherapy conveys the concept of healing with aromatic substances.