Never say you understand someone's pain if you haven't felt the same, because not only would you sound mocking but also ignorant.

Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.

Every weekend, I fall in love again. By Sunday, the last thing I want to do is let her go, release her back into the cold water of life.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I am who I am who I am who am I Requesting some enlightenment Could I have been anyone other than me?

Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another." pg 69 Tomas to Vlad

All intimacies are based on differences.

Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.

But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.

One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.