I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.

When you are feeling sad and lonely because you are single, remember that there are a lot of people stuck in bad relationships who wish they could be in your shoes.

I like coffee in the morning and decaf green tea throughout the day... When I was younger and modeling, to kick-start a diet I would do a juice cleanse.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor

The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than £18 billion. If we include the social costs the total impact will exceed £20 billion.

Treat any and all drugs with respect, for most of the time they are stronger than you are.

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.