Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.

You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Big things have small beginnings.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

I shall never exchange reading for riches.

Let her go!" That was a new voice, young but full of authority. ... There was Prince Maxon...."Open the doors.""But-Your Majesty-""Open the doors now and let her go. Now!

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

Men are separated by so many petty things.

Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river (in deeper or shallower degree). 'Entire sanctification' is the river in fullest flow.

Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest to do so.

Democracies are not very stable.

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.