“I don’t get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.”

Your best posture is your next posture.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.

I am God. So it’s easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me, then I am in God. Therefore, I am God. God does not exist without me.

I don’t know what my favorite film of mine is but I think the most important film I was in was ‘Glory’.

Reading one book a day to your child can change the trajectory of their future.

I’m not intimidated by lead roles. I’m better in them. I don’t feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That’s what I’m born to do.

As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.

In the harshest place on Earth, love finds a way.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

I was an imaginative child and learning to read was like unlocking another dimension in my mind.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don’t get it, I can’t do it.

You can’t take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.

“Invictus” was more a parable in terms of what is possible in life.

Studies have shown kids have a greater chance for lifelong success if they know how to read by the third grade.