Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Every fact is a myth until proven to be otherwise.

Bittersweet: it's what life tastes like. And if you can handle the bitter, the sweet will come later. ~ Klyde, in Piranhas Like S'mores.

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

So many things begin to change when you come at the world from that perspective of more than one right answer.

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.

When we...go back in to the past and rake up all the troubles we've had, we end up reeling and straggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.