“Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.”

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

The peace that we’re after lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire, faith leaps over it.

Originality is really important.

Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I’ve ever heard.

One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.

If you’re mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you’re doing it wrong.

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm… and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

I think I would like to discover a new root where people don’t get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That’d be interesting.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

My parents were very protective. I couldn’t even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.

I’m the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.