Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.

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.

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?

Learning has no end until the day of death.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.

How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.