If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

In its essence, a meal is a creative act that has its genesis in the mind of someone who cares enough to plan it, gather ingredients and labor over its creation.

It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India

My cousin had a baby and I was watching her breastfeed for a couple of bucks, and I'll tell you ladies: it's amazing.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.