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"It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes."
"I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be on, performing."
"I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged."
"Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory."
"You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being."
"I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power."
"My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time."
"I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing."
"I cannot be contained because I am the container."
"Just because I rock doesn't mean I am made of stone."
"I love playing ego and insecurity combined."
"It's time to P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!"
"It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds."
"Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you’re sitting on the couch and you get up and make a triple-decker sandwich. It’s on the other side of that, when you don’t make the sandwich. It’s about sacrifice... It’s about giving up the things that basically keep you from feeling. That’s what I believe, anyway. I’m always asking, "What am I going to give up next?" Because I want to feel."
"Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever."
"That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall."
"I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me."
"I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her."
"I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work."
"As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass."