If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

I'm always one time zone behind myself.

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

I've always been a bit of a car freak.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions

Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.

Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters.

The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in.

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.

You want it? Work for it.

Reincarnation is a process of moving from one state of mind to another. Whether you are in a body or out of a body is immaterial.

What's amazing to me? General Electric has a bigger budget for - special interest budget than all of the oil companies combined, and yet nobody says anything.

You don't remember the times your dad held your handle bars. You remember the day he let go.

I still want what I've always wanted ... to be the best person I can be.