I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

That friend of hers has got to go, though. You're lucky you got stuck with that Dexter guy instead of

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

I feel responsible to know what I'm talking about and to actually express myself the way I choose. We have to put those messages on a global platform period. That, to me, is inspiring.

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.