All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.

Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?

Military Veterans have become gang members since the late 1700s.

I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

Before I die, I want to help as many people as I can make their dreams become a reality.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time.

Britons still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.