You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.

You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting

You can only lead by example, and you can only say it might be better for you if. But nobody can do anything until they're ready to do it. So you can sit down with a strong-minded young man of 24, as my son was at a point, and say now listen, this, this, this, and this.