There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

That's the great secret of humans: we're all the same person. The best thing to do is just go for the hug.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.

... Desire baffles knowledge and power.

I could not love thee dear so much Loved I not honor more.

If you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job.

I'm a very hopeful person.

Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

In the Atma all are one. Remember that Unity. Live in that Unity. Make that your goal. All are one... be alike to everyone.