I can only control what I can control.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

...never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.

Gender-equality rests on the idea that one can climb the sea and swim the mountains.

The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.

I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.

That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

You should always change at least three times a day during Fashion Week.

Whoever truly worships the gods loves their priests.