I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career.

As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.

The beauty of every experience you have is that hopefully you'll learn something from it.

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.

A lot of why we become actors is to fill a void that we have and a part of that void is to live out and tell stories that we've lived or that we hope would have been different in our own lives.

At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves.

As an actor, I've always paid attention on sets. I've always watched, learned and listened, and you start to see things differently. You always leave yourself an out.

Future:Life ahead is full of brighter days.

Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.

This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

We doin it big. Look at what I done. Look at where I'm is. It's only just begun.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

The Pentagon's lost entire countries.