The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a brush, acting is us. Our energy, our soul, our spirits. And it's so hard because it's so vul­nerable. You're exposing everything.

You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.