When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

That's the great secret of humans: we're all the same person. The best thing to do is just go for the hug.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.

Prayer is a leader's best friend. Prayer gives her the best offensive strategy in doing the will of God. Prayer should be part of every moment of her life.

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

Herr Schiller? Are there really any such things as ghosts?' The old man did not even show surprise at the question. He heaved a sigh. 'Yes Pia, there are. But never the ones you expect.

Thankfully, we didn't stop at Malta. I think Malta was thankful, too.

Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.