I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

I have seen many educated persons splitting garbage over roads and many uneducated persons cleaning it.

It's simple as that... you don't like it, you don't read it. You like it, you read it!

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

I'm playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order

As long as you're being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat.

You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button