Directing is something that I'd been wanting and hoping to do, as I've grown into myself.

As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.

The beauty of every experience you have is that hopefully you'll learn something from it.

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.

I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career.

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.

A lot of why we become actors is to fill a void that we have and a part of that void is to live out and tell stories that we've lived or that we hope would have been different in our own lives.

At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves.

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.

When he whispered my name, that's when I knew- this was how death felt.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

I know I got to be right now Cause I can't get much wronger

Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

I don't bat an eye at stuff like that. I've had my share of wins. If I worried about the games I should have won, it would probably drive me crazy. It was a fun game to pitch in.

Where there is no purity, there is no Unity. Without Unity you cannot attain Divinity. Then your life is just a waste. First purity, next Unity, then you realize your Divinity.

He who flees will fight again.