Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

The most beautiful thing is telling someone you love them, because you can only love another person if you love yourself

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

There’s a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

You have your private life and you have your public life, and just don’t let them interfere.

Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love’s day.

Resisting change does not change the truth that change is constantly happening.

What separates courage from fear are the thoughts we choose to believe.

If we are strong our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak words will be no help.

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't really remember what the alternatives are.

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.