"It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me."

"'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it."

"I have a fear of being boring."

"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."

"It is a humble truth that love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them."