There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.

Labels are for cans, not people.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

Don't ignore anybody who has ignored everbody and everything for you.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

The sacred souls are saved by grace.

Among those whom I like or admire I can find no common denominator but among those whom I love I can: all of them make me laugh.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.