Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about.

So, was the crime lab a reward for almost being killed?''No, it was a reward for not being Bryce,

I know well that happiness is in little things.

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.

Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

My music should evoke a feeling; whether it's a feeling in your stomach, goosebumps, whatever. When you don't get a feeling then there's a problem.