From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in the past because it doesn't exist anymore. It's done. It's over.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

When it comes to emotions, we all feel pain in the same way, everyone, whether you're from Istanbul or Beijing.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

I'd love to do yoga every day. I don't usually have time, but a few sun salutations go a long way.

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

I fell asleep that night in the arms of a killer. I'd never slept better.

If ... you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

It's such a contentious thing to get people in a room and just say, "go!"

Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.

I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

The Bowling Green game was a big-time environment. We wanna see that for all the games.

I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.

If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.