As an actor it's easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself: "Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?" Yet here I am, so I'm lucky.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

The more you are positive and say: "I want to have a good life." The more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

My nipples could cut glass.

Where the mind goes the man follows.

For what reasons would you waste your time on earth?

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

I put myself in the studio and I really made sure to say, 'Well, if I would normally reach for a trumpet, why don't I reach for the next nearest instrument instead?'