Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.

If you are going to abandon your work because someone speaks ill of it, then it has never been your work, has it? It becomes theirs. You give it up.

Discover. Read. Learn.

I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.

He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.

Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.

I can't pretend that I did one really awful thing - I took a bite out of the apple but now I'm never going to sin again.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

I do like being surprised by directors and producers and being offered parts I would never have considered, including parts that aren't necessarily obvious but which would test me.