The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

When things don't happen, people get Sick. They see time Tick and they want it Quick. They forget that Success happens brick by brick.

Promises, like gardens need weeding from time to time to produce healthy results.

The biggest problem occurswhen i try to forget you are nights, cuz i ain't got control on my dreams...

Love should never be a secret and it should never, ever be forgotten.

I am a queen because I know why how to govern myself.

I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.

I'm concerned about how Hillary Clinton's going to govern.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.