You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

If someone's 20 years old and every third line out of their mouth is anti-something specific, then draw your own conclusion.

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

Soap operas are a world where rich people always have chandeliers and hip people have striped hair and the language that they use doesn't have any flexibility anymore.

Religion is deeply intertwined with a person’s cultural identity. Hence, trying to take it away, is not only unethical from a humane standpoint, but also it is immoral and downright inhuman.

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.

I want to make movies on a soundstage. They close the door and it's nighttime, daytime. If it has to rain, they make the rain. That's what I like.

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

The harder I worked, the luckier I got.

Be patient with yourself even when you make mistakes.

When the ego dies, the soul awakes.

Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.