I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

Look, if anyone is scared, I got your back.

Words will only ruin you, if you allow them.

Only crazy people don’t do anything new and they expecting new result.

Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right there is no love. There is only masked fear.

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.