I tend to want to go quite big in my acting, which you just cannot do in front of a camera. It's taken me a while to learn how to pull it back.

I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years.

I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the office - and I went traveling.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Every craft is a self portrait of the maestro who does it. Autograph your work with greatness.

We know the quality of another’s heart through her voice.

Sometimes you have to go to the bottom in order to start at the Top.

Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.

At the end of this lifetime, you will leave this world. Your awareness field will stay together in a certain sense and then it will seek to return to things that are familiar. You will reincarnate.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.

A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.