I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.
You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
If you have love in your life, you have life.
I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.
Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.
You never know what motivates you.
Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.
Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.
Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.
We go out there and kill it every night, and you can see what this means to people.
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes.
They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.
There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.
I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.
Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
You can't break what's broken already.
If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.
I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to play video games.
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
You try to get the feel of any role, but it's much more difficult in the case of Christ because everyone has their own personal image of Him. It's a role you take on, knowing that no matter how you play it, you are going to disappoint many.
When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.
Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
A handy pair of tweezers go a long way. You never know when you're going to have to pluck out a few of those eyebrow hairs. Keep the tweezers in the purse!
Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares.
Our pool is outdoors, but it's heated, and I've got one of those machines that produces waves you have to swim against; like a jogging treadmill, really, only it's in water. Basically, it means you can have a small pool, swim for miles, and get nowhere.
