My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.

I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet.

I was always searching. I became a Buddhist in my twenties when I came to Los Angeles. I met a group of people who I really loved.

Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.

Living life dangerously is the key to recognizing that you can do whatever you want when you stop limiting what you believe in.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

The bit I love is I really love acting, really, and the circus of being a celebrity is something I'm sort of not interested in. I find it strange.