You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.

You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.

The object is freedom.

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.

I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what’s wrong with that?

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda said hey, you wanna be an actor and I said sure.

I am the same as the public as my fans.

If you think research is expensive, try disease!

A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.