For success, don't take the path of least resistance. Take the path of most persistence.

Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side.

Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position.

Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

If we don’t communicate, we certainly can’t get much done and if we don’t communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.

Creative freedom is prosperity for the soul.

A catalyst by definition creates a reaction, but itself remains unchanged. Be a positive catalyst for a cause you are passionate about. I dare you to remain unchanged!

I'm not reinventing myself. I'm finding myself. There's a difference!

Knowing how you want your work to look helps you decide who best to work with and where.

Just because others don't understand your journey doesn't mean you're not on the right one. After all, it is YOURS!

Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night.

I am wildness and madness made flesh. You're just a girl"–he smiled, and the tips of his teeth were sharp–"and I am the wolf in the woods.

I think there's a lot of learning process in figuring out what things you want to do and shouldn't do. Maturing in that way is something that comes with experience and time.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world.

The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it.

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.