We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love...these are what we stay alive for.

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

"The learn-it-all does better than the know-it-all."

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.