Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Life is a disease.

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.

What do you think you're doing?

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

When I reap the rewards, I don't even know I'm reaping them.

Humankind above all is lazy.

I want to be a big model. I know I still have a lot to learn, but I believe that will be one day I do it perfectly!

When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.