Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

To me, you were more than just a person. You were a place where I finally felt at home.

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.