Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting.

Humans lose focus of the big picture when they’re drunken in the midst of their feelings. - Tojuro Hattori

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.

Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

I'm not one of those fellows that is just going to have a psuedo-middling relationship.

Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.