I don't do things lightly, I don't take a job then just phone it in, I've never done that.

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

Above all things I believe in love.

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

...as an actor there's nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It's so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

You cannot be happy unless you are serving the truth of your being, however that service looks.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

I woke up this mornin' Feelin' round for my shoes Know 'bout I got these, Old walkin' blues.

Every cent that goes to research is changing the lives of patients and their families right now.

The text is your greatest enemy.