There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Although it's good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy of great talent.

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.

All answers are only found in the super-conscious. It takes us to a point where we don't ask questions anymore because that part of us which would ask goes away.

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world - above, below, and across - unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.

You get to play with people's little danger zones.

This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.

The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.