I quite like it when you're working with people and you only get to know them through the scenes that you're doing together.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

Whatever you do, do it completely. Don't do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.

The art of survival is a story that never ends.

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

Babies are born without knee-caps.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

The best doctor gives the least medicines.

We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.

Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

Dying is nothing, but pain is a very serious matter.

This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.

It's just a figment of the imagination.

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.