The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in the past because it doesn't exist anymore. It's done. It's over.

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

When it comes to emotions, we all feel pain in the same way, everyone, whether you're from Istanbul or Beijing.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

I'd love to do yoga every day. I don't usually have time, but a few sun salutations go a long way.

With grace we can overcome every human limitations.

The strength within us comes from God.

Alexander McQueen... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend.

Tim Sherwood has come in, done very well and given us another string to the bow in a different type of way.

Sounds mean nothing without music.

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year.

Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you.

If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummers put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.