Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Cries for help are frequently inaudible.

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

Through helping one another, you can often eliminate the prefix 'im' from the word impossible!