“Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm.”

Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger.

You know what is a nice thought? Retirement.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery, the joy and the depth.

Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Energy can’t be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction.

I thank the earth and the sky every day for the opportunities I’ve had.

If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel.

Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.

Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask – you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Even in darkness, your light burns with the cosmic energy of a thousand falling stars.

Consumed by darkness but drenched in warm morning sun. Life’s oxymoron.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light so we can see the bright side of everything.

If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It’s all or nothing. In this damn world, it’s all or nothing.

I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that have far too long been in the darkness.

Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.

Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.

My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet.