I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

I'm not focused on what other people think of me.

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

“I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.”

“I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.”

“I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.”

“I'm not focused on what other people think of me.”

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.”

“When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.”

“I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?”

“If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.”

“Moreover, in my own way, I have discerned in pure Being the involution of all forms. As felt, pure Being may be indeterminate, but as conceived reflectively it includes all determinations: so that when deployed into the realm of essence, infinite or indeterminate Being truly contains entertainment for all eternity.”

“In his biggest sacrifices, man finds the biggest fulfillment”

“faith in the intellect...is the only faith yet sanctioned by its fruits”

“Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.”

“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy”

“The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.”

“Time and Space are not prior to creation, they are forms under which creation becomes thinkable.”

“To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood.”