Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

Happiness. It comes onunexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel. More than I think you'll ever know.

If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.

I hear from everybody, and they say Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense. Were not hired to fight.

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others... It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.

We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.