And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.

Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.

It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.

That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.