Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstandin g you.

Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?

If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones.

If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something.

The less time you spend with Truth, the easier it is to believe lies.

Trials show us where we are and where we need to grow. Dont run from them, grow from them.

God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit.

God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit.

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.

I think everybody has a purpose. Everybody is made to be a picture of how good and glorious God is, and I think sometimes we'll get it confused and think because we mess up, we make mistakes or we have some blemishes in our record, that our purpose is somehow messed up. But actually that only serves to further paint a picture of how good God is when he uses people who are messed up just like me.

My mission is to change the way people see the world. Everybody has a perspective or a lens they see things through, and hopefully I can adjust that lens or change that lens so that they see things from a different perspective, a different lens.

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

I've made so many crazy mistakes and done so many terrible things, I don't know. I'd just say I'm grateful for every mistake and every disappoint that I've had to experience - that I'm still loved and still cared for, that God's still here for me.

But I'm here to serve people. I'm not here to wave my finger in people's faces and point out to them how terrible they are or what I hate about them or anything along those lines. That's not my place. I'm in no position to condemn anybody.

I don't think the music industry has done any damage to my faith - it's probably strengthened it because it's made me see how necessary and relevant it is. I think if you don't keep your guard up, obviously there's a lot of potential for being half-hearted throughout the whole process because you can compare yourself to other people instead of the ultimate standard.

I've got quite a big gay following. I played a lesbian prostitute in the TV series 'Band Of Gold' but I think my following really grew when I played one in the film 'Imagine Me & You,' with Piper Perabo.

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.

It's amazing the things that you cry at. I cry when I smell my son's hair in the morning. We have a moment of peace and I'll be like, 'Ahhhh! How can you love this much?'

Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.

People do seem to think that I'm going to be some wicked witch, and then they're always surprised to find out I'm just a little clumsy nerd.

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.

I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

It's always weird the thought of taking your clothes off in front of 20 people and then to have it projected in front of many more.

It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.

The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it.

I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.

I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

I've said from day one that I've got no problem with nudity. I've done it throughout my career.

I've said from day one that I've got no problem with nudity. I've done it throughout my career.

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.

Freedom isn't free at all, that it comes with the highest of costs. The cost of blood.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career.

I'm just going to stay single forever. I could never live with anybody ever again.

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.