"I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff."

"For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting."

"Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art."

"I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't want to be working with the bad guys. I didn't want to be making a movie I thought was contributing to a lower base of movies that I just didn't think were helping people, really."

"He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life."

"Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era."

"If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country."

"Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent."