I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

Seek wisdom, and success will find you.

Sometimes you have to embrace the darkness to stop it.

Sorrow is dangerous.

Neruda had his first dream, First meeting with the Moon and the Sun In sunny La Mancha, hiding in his heart, Where he learned how to sing like a nightingale.

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

Yeah school girl, cool girl. Your dress is sexy and your momma is a cougar.

[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.

Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.