I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

Words are tools of imagery in motion.

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

You are done with the past, but the past isn't done with you.

I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.

The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.

Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

In separateness only does love learn definition.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.