You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

Look, if anyone is scared, I got your back.

Jesus Christ says, 'Kill me and in 3 days, not only this temple, but all temples in the whole world will be out of business.' This is the most stunning thing any human being has ever said.

You must be willing to play with Failure before you reach Success.-RVM

Good can sit in the distance, just beyond your view, waiting, until you go toward it.

I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.

Bruce lives a lie. She is not a lie. I can't do it anymore.

That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the water in the first place is the element of risk.

Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!