I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

I love pain. Love pain.

Why not do as much as you can, and learn as much as you can about each process?

it's never been a plan to have this or that. It's just where I am in my life, at that time, and where my path is going to go.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.

In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.

I can get bored with any show, when it goes on too long.

The bank of love is never bankrupt.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

There's something about live recordings now that's too hi-fi.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.