The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

Ranking where people stand in your life and who they are to you helps you determine who you value the most and therefore where best to spend your time.

No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.

Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die

You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

You can't take 11 [million people ] at one time and just say, boom, you're gone.

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

Women tend to take care of men a lot, but I like a guy who balances that out and takes care of me, too.

Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.