Actors are inherently self-centered.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Where they had once ambled alone, they now walked together home.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

They faced each other. 'I'm going to enjoy this,'Melancholia said. 'I daresay I'm not.

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage. ---Beth about Wrath

All top players are the same strokewise, but mentally I can improve and that's where it's at for top players.

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker