To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

I'm not regimented. I don't diet, and I exercise the way I want to.

My favorite thing to do is eat and eat well.

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

A thoughtform is rather like electricity … it must first be created and then discharged in order to exist.

Just that sons and fathersAre like mirrors and daughters are soft

It's a full time job with a part-time companion.

No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.

I get recognized a lot now. It's great.

The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Some people might think Rain is the superstar or super successful, but I am someone who always sets new goals and tries to accomplish them.

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.