There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not.

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped - it eclipses internal shine.

We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.

I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.