Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

I've been training in Jiu-jitsu for about six years and I'm very fortunate to live in that world. All the fighters hang out and have lunch together just about every day and trade stories. And I've always been fascinated how in the world of Jiu-jitsu in L.A. everybody in the fight world - cops, special forces, bouncers, stuntmen - connected across different lines.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one.