One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

But in my heart, when I said “my king, ” I meant Verity.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

Fits of anger, vexation, and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed and upset at seeing that it is imperfect.

When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect. And the character I got to play was so fun.

If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life.

One of the benefits of success with new songs is that some of the other songs will get a chance to see the light of day whereas they wouldn't have before.

Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.

To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

We have very stable, solid economy; we are going through challenging times.

Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't".

I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.