If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show.

The character is what trips you up - the thing of, "I'm going to get so dark in this character that I'm going to get lost in a character." You can't get lost in a character. You can only think you're lost in a character.

The era of ‘yes’ has begun.

Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

i'm a perfectionist, so i'm never satisfied with myself. i've always been psychotic about that kind of stuff--in a good way. i'm very disciplined. like the food and the whole thing, i'm always looking to "how can i eventually just turn into a ball of light and fly off the planet?". until that happens and God basically pull the blinds back, i will not be satisfied... if i found out that if i ate pine nuts for the next month i could see God, i'd be eating pine nuts.