When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through.

You're mine, Nissa." The words were guttural, strained. She knew it. Deep inside her core the truth was there.

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

Well, anyway, I'm not a Catholic.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.