A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.

When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.

So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom...

It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

the Z-particle Pure energy—no mass at all. It may well be thesmallest building block in nature. Matter is nothing but trapped energy.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.