If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.

Hey, I know it's Monday, but it's also a new day, a new week and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.

If you want something to work, if it means that much to you; KEEP IT TO YOURSELF

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

You can not be successful without confronting rejection.

You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character.

You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

There's nothing more rewarding than making a difference doing charity work or being able to be there for a friend.

Education is provide enlightenment for one's life.

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types.

Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE.

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

The most savage people are also the ugliest.

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.