The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.

Later that night she picked the polish offwith her front teeth until the bed you sharedfor seven years seemed speckled with glitterand blood.

Silence hung around the corners, draped like spider webs across all surfaces and hanging like smog in the air.

Be annoyed and sin not" ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

I have an authority problem.

I'm proud of myself. I'm a relieved, happy girl.

They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.