Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Be brave enough to live creatively.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.