Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?

I have always been a huge fan of reggae music. I remember going to see Bob Marley And The Wailers at the Hammersmith Odeon when I was 13. I went with my big sister, Cordelia, and it remains the most wonderful concert I've ever been to.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.

You may find that knowledge is not so great a thing as belief or hope.

I'm an actor. It's my job.

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.

For me the visual is just as important as the music.

I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.

Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for which we seek. And if with all our hearts we truly seek to know the Savior and to be more like Him, we shall be, for He is our divine, eternal Brother.

No matter what your choices are you truly have no control about what people think of you.

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.

I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.

Surround yourself with positive energy.Good vibes translates into good moods and better health all around.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.