And Quotes

I've got five or six amazing friends that I trust and love, I know exactly who I am and don't care about anything else.

You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

I'm always dreaming and doing.

I love getting dressed up for red carpet events and having my hair and makeup done professionally - that definitely helps with nerves of going down the red carpet.

Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

In the midst of a foggy field, the answers are hidden But the impossible journey deems them forbidden. The Reaper of Death, the Angel of Life. They walk together in day and night.

A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

My RV is the only place where I can find some peace and quiet.

I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.

We have to choose to slow down, to actually see the time and space that we are in. To truly see people and accept them in their priceless moments.

And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

We don't have to talk about faith and family at dinner-we just show it.

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

​Life is a series of highs and lows. The trick is to tip the balance in your favor by following your heart and taking some risks.

Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.

Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou

The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.

Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.

When you are down and out, find something or someone to love.

Love and happiness is a great match.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.

I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.

I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.

it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.

Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.

If tolerance and kindness and acceptance and love are political, then I guess I am political.

I am not for women but against men.

I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

I've gone through hell and back.