The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.

Let your conscience be your scripture and your actions be your religion. Let the humans be your church and compassion be your worship. Let love be your gospel and acceptance be your revelation.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

Ignore past failures and forge ahead.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

Apologies are not pass/fail.