Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.

I'm just a big believer in 'you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,' and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships.

When we live our lives everyday, we're met by opportunities, and most of us don't even recognize them.

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.

There is nothing strange, creepy, or inappropriate about John Travolta .

I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on.

I'm very comfortable with my sexuality, my body, my face - well, sometimes I'm not comfortable with my face, but it's stuck there and there's nothing I can do about it.

I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory.

They can be like the sun, words.They can do for the heart what light can for a field.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

Also a good director and good dialogue. That's very important because you're bringing the words to life. So it's very important for an actor to have good dialogue.

The first step of a journey is always the longest.

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.