When the writing is good and it suits your character, you don't have to memorize anything, because it just makes sense. You read it and you go, "Oh, that makes sense." And it's easy.

...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks down, there you AIN'T.

When you're going to spend a couple of weeks with people, you want to be with people that are enjoyable.

When you work with kids, you realize if they have a really good, stable family environment that they're going to be okay.

If I play one psychic, then I'm playing a psychic at least three or four more times.

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

People who work on soaps all the time understand the formula of how to do it.

You never know how things are going to turn out.

There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is.

I thought you might supply some tendernessI lackedBut out of all the things I offered you took mybreath awayand now I want it back

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.

In any case, though, I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circles and hurt you deeply.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.

The rhythm of the ride carried them on and on, and she knew that the horse was as eager as she, as much in love with the speed and air and freedom.

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.

Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?

As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd.