The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

You can be whoever you want to be. Sometimes all it takes is a little inspiration and effort.

Be you. You are a holy-self.

Behind this smile in my faceLies the dark shadow of emptinessHiding from your eyes within my gazeConcealed with sham happiness.

I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.

Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.

You can use melted butter instead of oil, but your cake may be a little denser.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.