Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.

My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.

I think I was about 16 when I first figured I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a fighter pilot before that, but then I thought I don't want to kill people so that ruled that out.

People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.

I think it's quite good to have an amount of unavailability.

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

I don't think I've got enough energy to be competitive! Most of my energy is just devoted to me being nervous and trying to deal with the situation.

The only person I can amaze is me.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

I don't want to go anywhere outside of gymnastics.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the ingredients wherewith to shape an equation of life.

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.