The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.

For me already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Be grateful for the home you have knowing that at this moment all you have is all you need.

How do you make any sense of history art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there so you get glimpses of a non-human world and that is a transporting thing.

While we are living in the present we must celebrate life every day knowing that we are becoming history with every work every action every deed.

It was one of the most exciting perfect evenings of my life my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.