Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.

In this atmosphere Where you have to go perennially crazy only to survive, Which auspicious moment should I choose to become mad?

Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good.

I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music we become inexplicably troubled.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!

When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'

By far, the content of Canadian films. You're able to push the envelope in ways you can't in the U.S., I find. But also, because of the budgets and everything, it's all condensed, quick, and short.

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!