I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

There's no such thing as a limit on being the best. You can always go for more. That's what it means to be human. No... That's what it means to be me. - Claire Stanfield

Truth about tears is that, most tears are the result of a delusion

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Elections are futures markets in stolen property.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

What has reasoning to do with painting?