Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

The road to greatness is often sought, but if journeyed with kindness, it is sweetly paved.

This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.

I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me.

Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.

Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.

Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

If you're a boxer, you want to get the ring with a Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali type. When you're acting, you want to get in with Meryl Streep, and that's what I did.