You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you'll lose your edge.

Genuine faith comes forth from the iron smelter of affliction.

It is only a mere fallacy to say you are quitting when your heartbeat is in tune with the beat. A real change is a real change!

Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses some people angry.

We were letting go of October, relinquishing color, readying ourselves for streets lacquered with ice, the town closed like a walnut, locked inside the cold.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

Taking baths in Africa was a real challenge at times. I got real dirty, and sometimes I stayed like that for 2 days. That was pretty hard going.

By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough.