I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

Hey, I know it's Monday, but it's also a new day, a new week and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.

If you want something to work, if it means that much to you; KEEP IT TO YOURSELF

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

You can not be successful without confronting rejection.

You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character.

You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.

If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.

There's nothing more rewarding than making a difference doing charity work or being able to be there for a friend.

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.

The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

The Antichrist, Section 7

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

You've got to love something enough to kill it.

A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.