I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that's precisely why I like acting.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

Whatever you do, do it completely. Don't do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.

The art of survival is a story that never ends.

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

Persistence is the fundamental ingredient of true success.

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.

The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

What is male and female? Is it just a physical condition? No. The energy runs very, very differently in a woman than in a man.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Today I want to dispel this myth, because it is absolutely not true .[ that ARV's work ] The pharmaceutical industry and those who have a vested interest in the drug industry fuels this propaganda.

I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.