As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

The secret is to just keep moving.

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

Difference is always the biggest challenge for humans. That's why we do enjoy reading or watching movies or watching TV. It's a personal challenge to get close to people that we never get close to.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.

A Bombshell’s constant struggle is living up to her God given potential while also battling in her mind the difference between her expectations and the world’s expectations.

We are kites in this world God is holding the string.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.

You want to be around guys that you share the same goal with and guys who are thirsty and ready to hunt and get victories.

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.