Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

Do not let your light be dimmed by anybody who doesn't appreciate the dream that you're trying to pursue.

I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didnt dissuade me.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're going to be an artist.

Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.

The Hollywood culture is so invasive, and I definitely wanted to be near it eventually.

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats.

Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

I'd love to play a full-out rocking chick.

...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.

And, after all, you’ve got to live.”“Not that way, ” said Roark.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.

Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!