There's always sacrifices. My family don't generally say that they're related to me - my sister doesn't say she's my sister - because they don' t want to be judged or lauded based on who I am.

The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.

I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.

You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.

When I was shooting a movie in Montreal, it was freezing. If you take a little bit of Aquaphor and dab it on your face, it keeps your skin looking fresh. I dubbed it Aqua For Everything.

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat

When you have something that close to you, you want to make sure that you're aware of it.

Pilates introduced me to muscles I never even knew I had. Soon I started to feel longer and leaner. Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.

End your journey well. Don’t waste your life, and don’t be satisfied with anything less than God’s plan.

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

I saw a lot of 47 Ronin on the TV, in the films, and I've done Chushingura Gaiden Yotsuya Kaidan [Crest of Betrayal, 1994] directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death.

Dampier is soft. Quote it, underline it, tape it and send it to him.