Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.
When your dreams becoming reality, they're no longer your dreams.
The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.
If you never fall in love with your character, you'll never be able to do that character justice. No matter who it is, no matter what the character does, you have to find the reason for it. Everyone's got a reason for what they do, even if it's a reason that they're not proud of.
In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.
Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.
If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.
I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.
Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
The word psychedelic gets bandied around far too often for my liking and it's generally just about three skinny lads singing about nothing, you know? But there's nothing more psychedelic than kids is there? Childhood is like being on acid most of the time anyway.
Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is to be at the beck and call of alien powers, to be chained and driven and tormented; it is to lose the life itself in the anxious care to keep it.