To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

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.

If the apocalypse comes...beep me!

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

The things that make us happy make us wise.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

I believe in God. He is the secret of my success. He gives people talent.

Chess is one long regret.

Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.