As an actor, it's always been good to be working at all.

You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Big things have small beginnings.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

The Universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers."Stanley Kunitz

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

I'm so blessed that I can still be here to bring the music and have new generations of fans. My Pops would be so proud.

[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church.