It's very hard to remain a student in life.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

My face is my career.

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

Just be yourself to change everything.

Prayer is the Fuel for Revival Fire!

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.

To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.

All criticism is a form of autobiography

I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

I'm just as normal as anybody else. I'm just probably in the same place as many people in their mid to late twenties are.