There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.

I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.

There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.

Friendship is ageless. It is the spirit we should like and care for, not the shell that encases it.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning

Remember, you are never alone in this world. Never.

People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

People are quite frequently eccentric.

People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.