Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

Success and the pursuit of it can nourish your body, but only significance has the ability to nourish your mind, body and spirit.

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.

Nothing hurts you unless you let it.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was number one on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

He who does not serve God where he is would not serve God anywhere else.

I've always been more of the athlete in my family, but Bella [Hadid] is just good at - when she needs buckle down for like two weeks and be in [the gym] every day, she's really good at that.

What's the difference between Lindsay Lohan and Rick Perry? It only takes Lindsay four and a half hours to finish a sentence.

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.