I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

When we love, we see beauty; we speak in beauty; we walk in beauty. In love, we are beauty itself.

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.

If we don't take that time (to be romantic), then it's karate, then it's ballet, and then there's Christmas, and then my husband is flying off to tour around the world.

I’ve just had enough of people misrepresenting me. Get to know me and see who I am.

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.

If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.