You know, when you finish the day, and you finish the scene, you don't get a chance to go back to it. So you wanna make sure that everything is left on the floor.

You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Big things have small beginnings.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

Anything in life is possible, if you make it happen.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending on which gender you are.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning

Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.