“I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.”

What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.

Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.

If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?

The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.

It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.

Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?

You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.

My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

If you can’t be direct, why be?

There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

Actors cannot work against each other. It’s totally impossible.

That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.

If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I’ll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.

What people don’t realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you’re being bullied by millions of people constantly.

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

There is a huge gap between the remuneration of an actor and actress.

Blessed to meet so many great people everywhere I go. Can’t thank you all enough for the support.