George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to each other. Hopefully one day.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

To be a success, find what you love and do it with all your heart.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

None are deceived but they that confide.

I would love to meet with the Black Caucus, it's great, the Congressional Black Caucus, I think it's great.

Cats are like Baptists. You know they raise hell, but you can never catch them at it.

You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by 1%.

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.