If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

Your fate is to be what you are. As mine is to be what I am...your master.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

I'm just going to go to schools and give inspirational speeches about our bodies. I'll just wear flowing dresses and talk way quieter than I can.

When you think of pristine preservation of America, you immediately think of Tulsa and Oklahoma.

Holy green guacamole! (Selena)

I often fake my death and then just show up at people's houses. They say 'that's a good one Thom' but I know maybe they don't really think it's a funny joke.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.