“There’s a world out there. Open a window, and it’s there.”

Sometimes the mask we wear is simply just a smile.

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

Poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.

Don’t associate yourself with toxic people. It’s better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.

I had sex with a prostitute when I was 21, I was so bad, she gave me a refund.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, ‘Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.’

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.

If women ran the world, we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Make your life spectacular, I know I did.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Strength isn’t always shown in what you can hold on to, sometimes it’s shown in what you can let go of.

Surely again, to heal men’s wounds by music’s spell.

You just have to make a choice to just refuse to be involved with things that could get you in trouble.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

Just because someone isn’t willing or able to love us, it doesn’t mean that we are unlovable.