I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Whoever find the goodness of grace, departs from wicked acts of evil.

Show Us, Don’t Tell Us

I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

I try to exercise as much as possible and eat healthy. But most importantly, I try to make sure that I'm near people who inspire me to be a better person.

One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.