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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.

Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to.

How can one know anything at all about people?

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.

My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.