The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I couldn't possibly have played someone with feelings towards a woman unless I had those feelings myself.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

That's one of the greatest things about music. You can sing a song to 85, 000 people and they'll sing it back for 85, 000 different reasons.

Large families are communities unto their own.

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.

The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Today, folks, should be all about love. Unless you're old.