I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.
The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.
The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
You know that they're not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time.
You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.
It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who.
This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.
Many speeches can be heard throughout the world, but one always has to wait for deeds
Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
I think people can read authenticity and they know when you're involved and when you're just slapping your name on something.
A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
The real bond and real love is something that is actually worth fighting for.
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.
If you say actors have a social responsibility to do things, you are right, in a way. It's a wishful decision. But if it's done out of force, I don't think it will accomplish anything. Everybody starts counting how much work they have done and see if they have done their due for the week. That is not social service. You need to go way beyond that.
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.
You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.
How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? …How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.”? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it!
If we want to know what we're really committed to, all we have to do is look at our lives.
When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change.
Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.
I detest symbolic protest, as it is an outcry of weak, middle-of-the-road, liberal eunuchs. If an individual feels strongly enough about something to do something about it, then he shouldn't prostitute himself by doing something symbolic. He should get out and do something real.
We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.
