"Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom."

"Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow."

"I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness."

"I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people."

"It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all."

"It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything."

"I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well."

"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."