I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me, or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.
At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.
Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher Who can answer them. Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving heart.
There is an interdependence between those who have and those who have not. The process of giving exalts the poor and humbles the rich. In the process, both are sanctified.
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
Never waste time for someone who doesn’t bother to spend time with you, but with someone who will say, time is wasted if I’m not with you.
Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?
I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.
I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.
Individuals who are focused on becoming better are individuals not easily offended. You can only offend those who are not on a path of constant growth and enlightenment.
I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was making, who was looking.
Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. "Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.
He hadn't stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking.
