There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

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.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

My life is now divided into two periods: With June and After June. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of it.

Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

Assuredly, the size of (Cadel) Evans' heart will come to be compared to Phar Lap.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do.