I look like everyone else.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Pay attention before speaking for attention.

Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

People love to judge, get used to it and stop taking it personally.

Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for