Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else.

I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.

It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.

You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.

Zinedine Zidane could be a champion sumo wrestler. He can run like a crab or a gazelle.

Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.