“The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.”

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

I love sharing my story. It’s endlessly healing.

The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.

All the backstories are there but not talked about.