Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who are different from us.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I couldn't possibly have played someone with feelings towards a woman unless I had those feelings myself.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.

Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.

Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.

One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything.