It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I couldn't possibly have played someone with feelings towards a woman unless I had those feelings myself.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

If you are through with dreams, then progress halts.

The character of Brent Spiner. We certainly collaborate on the concept of that, but he basically writes the script, then it's sort of a combination of his voice and my voice.

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.

Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

I am sorry about the person who is not truly excited about his job. He will not only never truly be happy there, but he won't achieve anything great.