I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.

Praying is the power of much more grace.

Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel.

Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets.

I'll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I've experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.

There is no way you can think outside of your culture.

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.