If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.

I am the boss of me. You can't change anyone else. Women think they can. But you know what? You can't.

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.

I learned nothing while I was in school.

Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

It's hard to keep a play alive moment-to-moment, you know? But there's another part of it that I really love, which is that you never know.

I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

Our ultimate devotion is to be a reflection of a divine work that is continuously unfolding in our hearts.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

As a moth gnaws a garment so doth envy consume a man.

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

As a kid, I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.

Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

I think if art has one underlying value, it's that.

Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.