I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.

Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another.

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'”

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

I love all history because it’s storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty.

When the heart speaks, love listens.

Anything is possible if you believe you deserve it.

Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy.